>From an AOO PMC Member,
I have compiled a high-level traffic analysis of discussion activity on the
OpenOffice PMC private@ oo.a.o list. These are *statistics* and noisy ones at
that. I am looking for trends that are good-enough at this level of precision.
It is in the nature of private@ that message content and even the topics must
be held in confidence.
This report of gross metrics is for the community's appraisal of current state
and later progress. The movement of discussions to the community when the
confidentiality requirements for PMC discussion do not apply should be seen in
movements at this level. Further reports over the course of the year may
provide an useful indicator.
OVERALL PRIVATE MESSAGE TRAFFIC
This is a breakdown of the traffic in the 212 days from January through July,
2015, by role of the sender.
2015 | Private List Messages
thru July | PMC ASF Other All
Totals 1145 182 31 1358
Senders 22 23 23 68
Per sender 52.0 7.9 1.3 20.0
(average)
Per day 5.4 0.9 0.1 6.4
Of all the messages sent,
84% are by members of the PMC,
16% are by other ASF participants, and
17% are by others.
The ASF participants include members of Apache Infrastructure, Officers of the
ASF, and other ASF Members and staff who make posts to the private list. The
"Other" senders are members of the public and non-PMC Apache OpenOffice
contributors that raise questions or provide information to the PMC via
private@.
For the 1145 messages from the 22 PMC members who posted to the list so far
this year,
49% of the messages are from the three
PMC members who were the most vocal
in the studied period.
75% of the messages are from the seven
most vocal.
91% were from the most vocal 11 of the
22 PMC members that posted.
I confess to being one of those top three posters.
NUMBER OF SUBJECTS AND AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION
A review of the same message archives, for January - July, 2015, tallied
168 subjects discussed across 1341 posts,
about 0.8 new topics per day.
The variance of 17 from the first tally
is negligible and will not be corrected.
The raw data is available for auditing
by the PMC.
8.0 is the average number of messages on a
single subject
5% is the portion of the overall messages
used in the longest thread, one with
73 messages
50% of the messages are on the 20 longest
discussion threads. The shortest thread
in that group has 18 messages.
75% of the messages are on the 50 longest
discussions. The shortest threads in
that group have 8 messages.
90% of the messages are on the 84 longest
discussions (i.e., half of the
threads). The shortest threads in
that group have 4 messages each.
The remaining 10% consists of 84 threads
having 3, 2, and 1 messages each.
This does not speak to the quality or the necessity of these messages and any
particular thread. The PMC has detailed supporting data.
[end of report]
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