Great stuff Stefano. These are going to be very valuable metrics. To start with, I'd draw your "commits per month" graph with a 1 year x-axis. This is a reasonable baseline for historical stats, and has the particular advantage in this case that it trims off the start-up phase of the project, so the average should go way up.
Cheers, Ewan. > -----Original Message----- > From: openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net > [mailto:openstack-bounces+ewan.mellor=citrix....@lists.launchpad.net] > On Behalf Of Stefano Maffulli > Sent: 23 September 2011 17:34 > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Community metrics, developers' engagement > > 2011/9/8 Stefano Maffulli <smaffu...@gmail.com>: > > in the next weeks I would like to start collecting some relevant data > > about the OpenStack community. One of the reasons for this effort is > > to understand it and communicate it to the outsiders better. > > I've spent a few cycles putting together some more thoughts and tools > to measure the engagement of contributors in OpenStack community. The > grand plan is to build a beautiful dashboard using business > intelligence tools, like Pentaho or something similar. I've started > putting down thoughts and ideas about the datawarehouse on > http://etherpad.openstack.org/CommunityMetrics. > > Before we get there we'll need raw data, so I've started playing around > with the tools provided by the folks at FLOSSMetrics > https://projects.libresoft.es/, especially mailingliststats and > CVSanaly2. CVSanaly2 is a tool that extracts information out of source > code repository logs and stores it into a database. It works well with > git, so I fooled around with it on the nova, swift and glance > repositories (see the attached plot, as an example). I'll publish the > queries I used on the wiki early next wee. I'm planning also to play > with gitdm to see the difference. > > I haven't spent too much brain power on the analysis of discussions on > mailing list because the mlstats tool expects the archives to be in a > form that we don't have at the moment. I'll do this later, or if > somebody wants to help me grab me on IRC (I'm reed there). > > Hope you like this and makes you want to tell me what you want to see > tracked and measured. > > cheers, > stef _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
