[Chaoss-Board] CHAOSS Goals 2020

[Matt Germonprez]

Agreed. Thanks Andrea. I'll certainly bring this up, not only in the board
meeting, but also in the CHAOSS community calls.

Also, thanks for the kind words on the metrics release. A lot of work by
excellent people :)

Matt


On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 2:16 PM Georg Link <linkgeorg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Andrea,
>
> Thank you for the positive feedback on the metrics release.
>
> What you are describing sounds connected to two threads of discussion that
> surface occasionally and we have not made much progress on either:
>
> 1. Composite Metrics - metrics that are combining (with weights) other
> metrics into one. We have some examples in this current release.
>
> 2. Maturity Models (or other names) - a collection of composite metrics
> (simplified). For example this CHAOSScon talk
> https://youtu.be/NaC2obrH8vg?t=551 (sorry, I was the speaker).
>
> I do think that what you are describing has value and a place in the
> CHAOSS discussion. :)
>
> Best,
> Georg
>
> On Feb 11, 2020, at 8:23 AM, Andrea Gallo <andrea.gallo at linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Matt, hello all,
>
> thank you for your email.
>
> I will join the board meeting via conf call most probably as I shall be at
> a different HPC event the very same days.
>
> First of all, let me share that the recent revamp of the metrics page is
> amazing, absolutely fantastic work! I could browse all metrics by category,
> read them one by one, etc. I loved the verbose description for each metric
> about its use case, etc.
>
> Congratulations for the hard work and the very neat outcome to the entire
> team, it is an amazing progress!
>
> About goals for 2020, I would like to raise one point for debate. I
> remember we discussed this already two years ago in Sonoma so apologies if
> this sounds misplaced. We agreed to work on metrics as tools to evaluate
> the success of an open source project but at the same time we agreed to
> refrain from providing any judgement or comparison of projects.
>
> Now given that the metrics are growing in number, scope and complexity, my
> suggestion as a goal for 2020 would be to propose that we create KPIs or
> weighted use of metrics by category in order to come up with some "label"
> or "attribute" for each one. Eg. based on the metrics in the GMD category,
> could we process and combine them in order to evaluate a "growth" or
> "maturity" or "decline" label?
>
> We would not rate a project as successful or failing yet we would provide
> some guidance for each category: growing / mature / declining, safe or at
> risk based on governance, license compliance, etc. Large outreach vs niche
> project based on diversity, geography, etc.
>
> I think this may become more valuable as the metrics grow further.
>
> Happy to accept criticism if this sounds like a bad idea :-)
>
> Maybe add this to the agenda?
>
> Thank you
>
> Andrea
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>
> On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 16:30, Matt Germonprez <germonprez at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi CHAOSS Board Members,
>>
>> As a small primer for the board meeting in March, it would be great if
>> you could give me a 1 or 2 goals you are hoping the CHAOSS project can
>> achieve in 2020. You can send them directly to me or to the list. I'd love
>> to get your input.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>>
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