> On Dec 23, 2015, at 4:49 PM, Neil Bowers <neil.bow...@cogendo.com> wrote: > >> Number (and age if possible) of open tickets might show if someone's paying >> attention to the dist. Like David said, much like the adoption criteria. The >> issues don't have to be valid, they could even be spam for all it matters, >> as long as someone's taking care of them. > > This is a tricky issue, as I found when trying to tune the adoption criteria. > There are plenty of big name dists that have a lot of open issues, and always > do. > > My current thought on this is that if no issues are getting dealt with in > some timeframe, then it fails the metric. Even if a dist has a pile of open > issues, if at least some issues are getting dealt with, then as you show, > that indicates some level of maintainer engagement. That still has failure > modes though: someone might have adopted a dist that they’re really not up to > maintaining, so they avoid the large / scary / critical issues.
Yes, absolute ticket count is not as good as ticket movement or churn, even if a release doesn't necessarily result. A clean river is a steady-flowing river.
