---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 3:19 PM Subject: The ASF and Apache OFBiz (was: Re: ASF Status website and project health reporting) To: gabriela.gib...@gmail.com Cc: "dev@community.apache.org" <dev@community.apache.org>, humbed...@apache.org, Noah Slater <nsla...@apache.org>, curc...@apache.org, u...@ofbiz.apache.org, rbo...@apache.org, Craig L Russell <c...@apache.org>, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com>, Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com>
Hi Gabriella, I have been pondering a bit on how Apache OFBiz could support The ASF as the unified front end regarding: - subscribing to and unsubscribing from mailing lists of projects and offices - profiling the Projects, Corporate Officers, ASF Members, Vice Presidents, PMC Members, Committers, Contributors and Offices - the invitation processes regarding new ASF Members, PMC Members and Committers - the 'Change of Guard' process regarding Board Members, Office and Project VPs Based on some demo data I have mocked up how this could look like and have created a Powerpoint to show and explain this a bit. In the attached PDF you can get a feel of some screenshots. In the notes of each slide you'll find a short description. If you would like to investigate and/or pursue the possibilities further, feel free to contact me to exchange ideas, viewpoints, etc. If you have trouble accessing the attached file please send me a note. Best 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 Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Gabriela Gibson <gabriela.gib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM, 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. > > > > > > I'm not so sure that mailing list subscription counts are very > representative -- I recently unsubscribed from almost every forum I had > ever joined because classification by labelling in gmail is a hit and miss, > and the deluge of mails that were incorrectly sorted was too much. > > Instead, I use the web interfaces for those forums now. > > So, I would like to see the mailing list web interface be improved: > > Better thread navigation; and the ability to 'one-click (un)subscribe' to a > given thread or a watch for keywords in the subject(subject to being logged > in). Being able to choose a digest or continuous format on a per-case > basis would also be nice. > > If that could be done, collected statistics about participation would be > far more reliable and informative. > > G > -- > Visit my Coding Diary: http://gabriela-gibson.blogspot.com/ >
