Jeremy Hughes wrote: > On 11/27/06, Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Jeremy Hughes wrote: >> > +1 sounds cool ... sounds like it could be a qualitative measure(s) of >> > a project/podlings community health. >> >> let's be careful to avoid confusing quantitative with qualitative. > > Sorry. All I meant was we can get some measure of project/podling > health which isn't simply a raw number ... e.g. "number of mails to > the dev list" or "number of commits". We could get some meaning behind > those. e.g. "although 100 emails were sent to the list in October, > only 2 people were subscribed at the time ... meaning community health > is x" ... or "100 emails were sent to the list, with average number of > unique respondants of 5, meaning community health is y" ... so maybe > this is quantitative. > > Anyway, enough ... are these the sort of measurements that might get taken?
Yes, but a lot of effort needs to be put in place to avoid creating 'altars' that people want to create races about. For example: most active developer, most active project, most email->svn activity... all these will turn out to be sources of flamewars or social friction. We can surely apply these 'metrics' to the various projects and show 'quantitative' results and be creative on which things to measure, but to suggest or even hint that these might be "really" a measure of quality, I would be very strongly against that as it might create more harm than good. -- Stefano. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
