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Thank you for the insights Jody. You have made some excellent suggestions that we as an OSGeo-AustNZ / ANZLIC community can build on. Bruce Jody Garnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 29/05/2008 08:15 AM To OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> cc Aust-NZ OSGeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject [Aust-NZ] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source development metrics [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > However this is probably unrealistic as to do this the developer will > have to have existing credibility within the community and there may > be good reasons why the community does not want to have 'product X' > included. So start slow with some metrics reflecting getting involved in the community and making contacts. > Does anyone have any examples that they use or thoughts on the above? > I do understand that metrics can be abused, may be meaningless and may > not be the best way to handle this, however we have to start somewhere. What a hard question ... Try for a couple of the metrics you use when evaluating open source projects: - open development; what is their level of involvement on a scale of learning, helping, submitting patches, commit access, responsibility, responsibility - documentation and help (assume number of pages written/edited; or number of questions answered on the user list) - quality assurance: number of test cases produced - number of patches submitted, or number of bugs depending on level of involvement... consider putting this on a scale so long standing bugs are worth more :-) - frequency of release (number of releases the employee assisted with via either tagging and packaging, testing; announcing etc...) - etc... I recommend approaching the specific communities you wish to be involved in and asking where help is needed. > We have a window of opportunity to get some more developers working on > OS projects as the Performance Planning cycle re-starts shortly and > I'd like to help our developers get some constructive ideas to take > into their sessions. Cheers, Jody _______________________________________________ Aust-NZ mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz Notice: This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright.No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check for and remove viruses. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. You are not authorised to use, communicate or rely on the information contained in this email. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
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