Tim Ellison wrote: > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >> Plans for the future include: >> >> 1) add a chart for the number of subscribers to the various lists (I >> already have a script for this, but I need somebody with apmail karma to >> run it on the apache machine that handles our mail) >> >> 2) add a chart for email traffic >> >> 3) start performing static analysis on the code using tools like >> findbugs, PMD and CPD >> >> Comments, suggestions and criticism welcome! > > At the risk of 'going meta', there are a number of indicators of the > health of Harmony that would be interesting to plot. Some relate to the > codebase (LOC, test passes, API completeness, etc.) and some relate to > the effectiveness of the community (mailing list activity, jira > turn-around time, number of committers, etc.) > > The following paper by Crowston et al. [1] has a list of interesting > measures that you could gather for Harmony. > > [1] http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/crowstonannabihowison.pdf
just to give you an idea of where I'm going with Melody, this is what I've done for my day job http://simile.mit.edu/history/ the code is available under a BSD license at http://simile.mit.edu/repository/stats/ Also, I know personally two of the authors of that paper and I strongly respect their work and motives but I think it's much harder to collect data about a community because 'quantity' and 'quality' don't necessarily go together. I try to be more creative in my community analysis, for example http://people.apache.org/~stefano/agora/ -- Stefano.
