I think we could leverage Streams-incubating help capture the latter. Possibly as part of the social monitoring project we'd already talked about.
Trevor Grant Data Scientist https://github.com/rawkintrevo http://stackexchange.com/users/3002022/rawkintrevo http://trevorgrant.org *"Fortunate is he, who is able to know the causes of things." -Virgil* On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > > > On 12/21/2016 08:32 AM, A. Soroka wrote: > > Not to say that this isn't a good first step, but that is definitely not > going to capture a lot of important engagement. At Apache Jena we recently > elected an excellent committer who has never made a single commit. Instead > we elected him to recognize his fantastic involvement with the community > answering questions and helping new users. > > > > I'm not sure what to do about that (measurement-wise) but perhaps as a > future move, the base list of committers for a project could be joined > against stats from the mailing lists for that project? > > > > Yes, this was my point exactly. Thanks for articulating. Probably would > need to combine mlist + commit + tickets + ... other stuff? Some > communities have active contributors who spend their time answering > questions on IRC, G+, Facebook, StackOverflow, etc. > > --Rich > > > > > --- > > A. Soroka > > > >> On Dec 21, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >> On 12/21/2016 03:09 AM, "Ulrich Stärk" wrote: > >>> 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? > >> > >> Sure, if that's our definition of "active". Likewise, if "commit" is our > >> definition of "active", that seems easy too. I tend to think that > >> "active" is a bit more complex, but either one of those would give us a > >> good first estimate. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > > > > > -- > Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen > http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon > >
