On 12/21/16, 9:01 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. That's starting to sound like too much work. Would be nice to get though, but a first approximation of mlist + commit should give us a rough idea for how far off the original 13% response rate number might be. My 2 cents, -Alex
