This is a 2015 full-year and last quarter wrap-up on participation in the
Project Management Committee private@ list.
I have not extended the subject analysis, just the participation summaries.
OVERALL PRIVATE MESSAGE TRAFFIC
2015 | Private List Messages | 2015 4th Quarter (Oct-Dec)
Full year | PMC ASF Other All | PMC ASF Other All
% 85 13 2 88 11 0
Totals 1769 280 38 2087 245 31 1 277
Average per month 173.9 92.3
It is uncertain how much the end-of-year holidays influence the
Reduction in the 4th Quarter.
DISTRIBUTION OF PMC PARTICIPATION
2015 Year 4Q
PMC Members Posting 25 18
Half of messages by 3 (49%) 2 (50%)
80% of messages by 8 (80%) 6 (79%)
95% of messages by 13 (95%) 10 (96$)
The PMC conversations in the last months of 2015 covered
typical topics under PMC responsibilities, dominated by IP
Matters, security considerations, and voting to invite new
Committers/PMC members, and other governance topics.
The top 10 posters for 4Q 2015 include the five PMC members who
completely held together the release and deployment of AOO 4.1.2.
While there are important contributions from many others on and
off the PMC, without those five the release would not have
happened when it did. The remainder of the PMC (including the
Chair) attended primarily to policy, procedural, and governance
topics.
- Dennis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 19:46
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> Subject: [REPORT] PMC 2015-08 Private-List Activity through August
>
> This is an extension of the previous analysis (through July 2015) to be
> through August 2015.
>
> It is also an initial effort to provide some measure of the quality of
> the discussions in terms of being PMC-necessary or being PMC-
> unnecessary. By PMC-unnecessary is meant discussion that is explicitly
> not included in what must be conducted on a PMC and that is best
> conducted in the full community (i.e., on this dev@ list) if at all.
>
> For the qualitative appraisal, the month of August is analyzed by
> itself. This establishes a base for month-by-month qualitative
> comparisons, starting with the analysis for September.
>
> NUMBER OF SUBJECTS AND AMOUNT OF DISCUSSION
>
> July August YTD
>
> Posts 237 208 1549
> Topics 28 33 195
> Average 8.5 6.3 7.9
>
> with some tallying errors between the traffic and the topics.
>
> PMC-UNNECESSARY TOPICS. By manual inspection, I identified 6 of the 33
> August topics as PMC-unnecessary. That 18% of topics accounted for
> 72/208 = 35% of the posts.
>
>
> OVERALL PRIVATE MESSAGE TRAFFIC
> (243 days from January 1 through August 31)
>
> 2015 | Private List Messages | August
> thru August | PMC ASF Other All | PMC
>
> % 84 14 2
> Totals 1306 222 36 1564 161
> prev 1145 182 31 1358 221
> % 84.4 13.4 2.3
>
> Senders 22 25 26 73 15
> prev 22 23 23 68 16
>
> Per sender 59.4 8.9 1.4 21.4 10.7
> prev 52.0 7.9 1.3 20.0 13.8
>
> Per day 5.4 0.9 0.1 6.4 5.2
> prev 5.4 0.9 0.1 6.4 7.1
>
> The annualized rate does not vary significantly with the addition of
> August. There is noticeable difference between July and August,
> however, with August the quieter month.
>
> In August, for the 161 messages from the 15 PMC members who posted to
> the list,
>
> 53% of the messages are from the three
> PMC members who were the most vocal
> 76% of the messages are from the six
> most vocal
> 91% were from the most vocal 9 of the
> 15 PMC members that posted
>
> approximating the overall pattern through July.
>
>
> - Dennis
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org]
> > Sent: Friday, August 28, 2015 14:43
> > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
> > Subject: RE: [REPORT] PMC 2015-07 Private-List Activity through July
> [ ... ]
> >
> > 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,
> >
> > 84.3% are by members of the PMC,
> > 13.4% are by other ASF participants, and
> > 2.3% are by others.
> [ ... ]
> > 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.
> >
> >
> > 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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