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On 11/10/2015 10:00 AM, Pierre Smits wrote: > That is nice! Apache pages drawn up by a member of the Apache > Software Foundation with the input from many (both ASF members and > others) and hosted/communicated through ASF means, and then saying > that those 'are not Foundation'. And that by/through the fingers of > a fellow board member.... Pierre, it's as though a document were written by the PMC of the OFBiz project, and then the people that had been involved in that conversation were to assert, unilaterally, that it must be adopted by the entire ASF, without any debate either on board@ or members@ That is the concern that Greg is citing, and one that I can find no fault wit h. When I encouraged, in another thread on this list, that mentors use the maturity model document as a useful measure to judge projects, I was careful to phrase it as a useful tool, rather than as new policy. You'll remember, no doubt, that when it was proposed as new policy, there was not consensus around doing that. (How's *that* for a tactful phrasing?!) I think that it's a useful tool. I think that mentors should consider it when they're looking at podlings, because, frankly, it's bloody hard to judge project readiness to graduate. I've been in the business (professionally, across several jobs) for some time, of attempting to measure project health, and it's really, really hard, and most (all) programmatic ways of doing so get it wrong at least half of the time. As such, they should be used only as a early warning system, and not, as Greg says, as a yardstick. Or as a checklist. Consider, for example, the numeric health score given by the reporter.apache.org tool. If it gives your project a -6, it means that you should look for warning signs and consider whether something is broke, but it does NOT NECESSARILY mean that your project is trouble. Likewise, if it gives you a 9.6, it doesn't NECESSARILY mean that everything is peachy, because there are so many unmeasurables. So, yeah, Greg's concerns here are valid, and I agree. I want as many tools as possible, and, I will always mistrust all of them to a certain degree. The 'maturity model' is not a checklist, and if we start seeing people using it as such, we should be very worried. Always be very, very careful what you measure, because people will naturally optimize for those things, to the detriment of some of the less measurable things. - -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlZEqKUACgkQXP03+sx4yJPZogCbBB1UOrff/cFLIt9gEU/prwHw DqQAn011cQGigcnb60UaVI64Hj2rQVXT =Bgtv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
