On 11/15/2015 01:20 PM, Marko Rodriguez wrote: > The Apache Way should be about metrics, not about philosophy as different > paths lead to the same mountain top <--- See! Is that random Buddhist saying > that everyone just "believes" even true? :) Get the human out of the loop!
I, for one, welcome our new computer overlords, however ... Metrics are useful for early warnings, but are awful at actually determining community health. I would encourage you to ask our friends at Bitergia, Markmail, Black Duck, and so on, about measuring communities, since they've spent a decade or more each on the science. They'll all tell you the same thing - metrics are incredibly useful, but should be treated with great caution, and always, always, always include a human element in evaluating. Because numbers don't show the whole picture. Many healthy communities have low activity from time to time, or perhaps have community patterns that evade your particular measuring techniques. And unhealthy communities often learn how to game the measures, or are doing unhealthy things outside of the scope of what's being measured. It's a fascinating thought experiment, and, indeed we should always strive to have better metrics, but we must be intelligent - and human - in how we read those numbers. One of the things that separates the ASF from GitHub or SourceForge, is that we do have a unifying philosophy, and a community of humans that defend it. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
