Re: Measurement & Report on Community interest

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
Scott, Thanks for having me remember that I exchanged thoughts on this and similar subjects regarding reporting on project health with Shane (Curcuru - ASF Brand Management), Daniel Gruno (infra) and Noah Slater (CouchDb). I will write an email today to those parties and cc this and the community

Re: Measurement & Report on Community interest

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
Scott, You are right. It is indeed an additional burden. One that we might be able to lessen with the help of others and some tooling. Maybe the infra group can assist in this with some additional scripts (or however they do it). They are already working on creating more insights (see http://statu

Re: Measurement & Report on Community interest

2014-10-03 Thread Scott Gray
Pierre this sounds like a wonderful idea but I don't think it's anything that requires the PMC. I'm sure you could do a wonderful job and the community would value your contribution. It's always important to remember that everyone is capable of contributing and as a community we should all fee

Measurement & Report on Community interest

2014-10-03 Thread Pierre Smits
Having an opinion is good. But making strategic decisions, that affect all readers of all the mailing lists, based on the gut feeling of one or a few is hardly consensus building. Measuring the interest of the community in general and regarding OFBiz applications is a good thing. Reporting on the