For sure, such an endeavour will take quit some effort and technical resources. Especially if we want to have this available over the entire lifespan of projects.
Projects do generate a lot of data that can be used for statistical analysis. Assuming over 200 projects and podlings, and each list having at least 3 mailing lists, you are looking at a lot of data that needs to be gathered and enhanced with data from other sources to ensure that the information created is meaningful. I wonder what technical solutions available under the ASF umbrella would be suitable to bring this kind of information to project communities, the board and everybody else interested. And how this should be approached project wise, as I suspect that a lot of skills and expertise is involved. Regards, Pierre Smits *ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>* Services & Solutions for Cloud- Based Manufacturing, Professional Services and Retail & Trade http://www.orrtiz.com On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org> wrote: > Agreed. Commits/ML traffic would be nice on a per-project basis. > > Beyond that: detailed analytics tools for all projects would be such a > boon from a community management perspective. I've long since thought > about writing some of these myself. > > No need to get it perfect at the outset. It's something that could be > improved over time. > > On 3 October 2014 12:50, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Recently we exchanged some thoughts (twitter and otherwise) regarding the > > status of Apache top level projects and about how the reporting by the > ASF > > to the projects and the wider communities could be improved. > > > > Currently the status pages at http://status.apache.org regarding project > > health (commit activity and mailing lists) don't allow drill down into > > individual projects. Is it achievable to get this kind of functionality? > > > > Can we (as the ASF) also provide insights in number of people joining and > > leaving the mailing lists of the projects and show what the trending > topics > > over the periods? > > But also reporting on average depth and width of mailing list threads? > > > > I do believe that these kind of insights will help monitoring project > health > > and investigate where projects can improve regarding community building. > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Pierre Smits > > > > ORRTIZ.COM > > Services & Solutions for Cloud- > > Based Manufacturing, Professional > > Services and Retail & Trade > > http://www.orrtiz.com > > > > -- > Noah Slater > https://twitter.com/nslater >
