On Tue, December 20, 2016 17:11, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > On 12/19/2016 08:36 AM, Sharan F wrote: >> Hello Everyone >> >> A big thank you to everyone that has helped or participated in getting >> the Committer Diversity Survey out, and also to all the committers that >> responded to the survey. It has been really good to be able to collect >> this information and see what it tells us about our committer base. >> >> I've loaded the main data and graphs from the survey onto the Community >> Development wiki (see link below) >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COMDEV/ASF+Committer+Diversity+Survey+-+2016 >> >> >> In total we received 765 responses (out of a 5861 committer base at the >> time the survey was run) so around a 13% response rate. > > It would be useful to pursue Niclas' assertion that most of our > registered committers are inactive. I'd think that if we define > "inactive" in some measurable way, we could determine some actual > numbers around that.
Since everything these days is going through LDAP it should be possible to get e.g. last login timestamp. Maybe reach out to infra? > > Either way, though, given how anti-survey we have been in the past, 13% > actually sounds like a pretty good response rate to me. > >> We also got 111 feedback comments of which 29 did not give their >> permission to share or from quote their comments. >> >> I've categorised all the comments into various themes / topics with the >> main ones as follows: >> >> 1. Suggestions for improvements within the ASF > > I look forward to seeing these. I hope that we have some things in there > that are actionable, and that we can find volunteers to participate in. > > Most of the conversations that I've had with people that have led > diversity efforts in other open source communities answer "what worked?" > with "lots and lots of hard work, for a really long time." > > So, thanks so much for getting this process started again. It's long > overdue, and we appreciate your hard work here. > > >> 2. Suggestions for improvements to the survey (or any future ones) >> 3. Thanks / positive feedback about the ASF and/or survey >> 4. Feedback and ideas around diversity >> >> Next steps will be: >> >> * Continue to analyse the information and identify any potential >> Community Development related actions >> * Start discussion threads on the various themes and topics raised to >> see if they will result in additional actions >> * Discuss feedback and diversity ideas and if necessary, integrate >> into diversity strategy > > > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org
