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[Jay Pipes <jaypipes@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Mike Scherbakov <mihgen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi openstackers,
> as a developer, I'm less carried about numbers of threads/messages in
> IRC/commits,
> but more about the activities and content.

++ Trends are good to see overall robustness of development activity,
but for inquiring minds like yourself (and me too!), I'd like to see
more details about the big patches/features that were merged into
trunk in each of the major projects. It makes understanding the
direction of the subprojects a bit easier and gives me heads up
towards new stuff that may be needed in Glance or other projects.

> Existing weekly review seems to
> me
> already perfect in terms of numbers; since we relocated to github it's even
> easier
> to see impact.

+0. I'm not entirely sure I understand the point of the impact graphs
in GitHub yet... I don't find them all that useful -- more of just a
very colorful and rounded-corner representation of activity... but
easier to tell who's making an impact (code-wise) on a project than
trying to grep through Launchpad branch history!

> Weekly news now missing the section 'Developing mailing list' (12 Aug was
> the last one?),
> where we could get overview of what are the major things were discussed in
> the mail list.
> I loved this section, and would love to see it again.

++

> If someone could do a similar summarizing of IRC talks, that would be
> perfect.
> I personally don't care about # of commits and who writes what (I can use
> git blame if I need :)),
> but it would be extremely helpful for me to see what was changed in the code
> since last week.
> Namely, what branches/bugfixes merged. If exists, some notices, like 'Be
> careful, I changed
> smth here, smth there may depend on it'.
> One more thing - blueprints. I didn't find any mechanism on launchpad that
> allows me to follow
> changes in blueprints (added, changed status, etc.). Please point me, how
> can I do it.
> If it's not possible with launchpad - again, I would love to see it in
> weekly news.
> I even prefer to see it in weekly news, may be with some more details, like:
> <feature A> <url_to_code> <+/- lines of code since last week>, so I'll be
> able to see if
> there any progress on the feature.

This is a good idea. Perhaps Stefano can send an email to the PTLs of
the subprojects asking for assistance here. (hint, hint!) :)

-jay

> Thank you,
> On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Stefano Maffulli <smaffulli@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> in the next weeks I would like to start collecting some relevant data
>> about the OpenStack community. One of the reasons for this effort is
>> to understand it and communicate it to the outsiders better.
>>
>> There are lots of dimensions we can track: usage, awareness,
>> developers engagement and more. Some efforts are already ongoing
>> tracking awareness and usage, with the weekly report published
>> semi-regularly on the blog.
>>
>> I would like to discuss with you ideas for other things you would like
>> to see measured with regards to developers engagement in the
>> community.
>>
>> here are a few things I think can be useful to measure regularly:
>>
>> * discussions on the mailing lists
>>    # of threads and messages
>>        top writers and company's affiliation
>>
>> * IRC discussions,
>>    top contributors, most common words
>>
>> On the code side, we may want to start tracking, for each project:
>>
>>    # of forks, commits, reviews, "watch" (in github lingo)
>>        authors and their affiliation
>>        contributions in changesets and lines of code
>>        (more or less what Jonathan Corbet did with the kernel)
>>
>>    # of bugs filed, opened, closed, reviewed
>>        people that acted [open|review|close] on bugs
>>
>>    # of blueprints in the different status
>>        people that acted on them
>>
>> As developers, are there any other dimensions that you would like to
>> see measured?
>>
>> thanks
>> stef
>>
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