[Oss-health-metrics] Proposed metric

[Georg Link]

Hi Hen,

Thank you for the 'Relative Activity' metric and for including a detailed
description.
I added Relative Activity to the 'Community Health' section.

We appreciate new ideas for metrics.

Metrics for judging the attentiveness of maintainers to users might be:
  * Issue Response Rate
  * Contributor Breath
  * Contribution Diversity
  * Contribution Acceptance
  * Contributor Activity
  * Distribution of Work
  * Issues submitted/closed
  * Reopened issues

Georg

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 12:59 AM, Henri Yandell <flamefew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi OSS Health folk.
>
> I wanted to share a metric that I've found very useful.
>
> Name: Relative Activity
>
> Description: Compare the activity between committers-as-a-group and
> contributors-as-a-group. It easily shows when a project is not yet popular,
> or when a project is not paying attention to its users. I also feel that a
> balance between the two groups is essential; ie) a project with a lot more
> contributor than committer activity is one that is failing to 'recruit'
> committers quickly enough.
>
> Implementation: I've been running it privately. I sum up the activities
> (GH issues+comments, GH pull requests+comments and GH commits) for the
> project members and for the non-project members, then I create a ratio of
> the two.
>
> A future improvement is to focus on "current" activities. That is, to
> ignore feature requests, or comments on feature requests, as I've found
> that  a lot of +1 responses can skew the ratios.
>
> ---
>
> Apologies if this is already on https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/oss-
> health-metrics/metrics
> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__wiki.linuxfoundation.org_oss-2Dhealth-2Dmetrics_metrics&d=DwMFaQ&c=kj4KSSBt5oOaHuCCpWXkZw&r=teUeYebJI-L6KKiChnEwHjI7huGN0aOyhRGk1iMG8kY&m=RLW872_bQ0RBstVYLfvql6XWAYDjsnhJ9tJtLpq27KQ&s=XGvy2fBgrMwDbYhCCSmOp-pPClUzXJJVPgvcxefMBfs&e=>
> - I didn't recognize it, though there's a lot of similar things there.
>
> Hen
>
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Georg J.P. Link
PhD Student
College of Information Science and Technology | PKI 367
University of Nebraska at Omaha | www.unomaha.edu
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