Lars Kurth
2013-Dec-10 18:47 UTC
Re: Developer Dashboards for Xen Project sub-projects (need input)
On 27/11/2013 02:19, Dario Faggioli wrote:> >> But not every week, not every month either - quaterly is nice enough. >> Or maybe once a year (say at Xen Summit?). But that should be possible >> already right? Or is it a major pain to create those nice graphs? >> > Yes, I also agree that we should pick-up a proper periodicity with which > we look at this, or we risk going mad! :-)The way how the tool works is to just automatically produce stuff from source.>> What is the overall goal? >> >> From my PoV my feeling is that: >> a). I need to hire more folks >> b). I have more things we want to do than there are >> developers. >> >> And I think the same is true for everybody else. But I don''t know >> if this dashboard will help in this regards? >> > Well, I think it goes way beyond that. > > Lars is collecting numbers and plotting graphs similar to the ones this > thing is able to produce from some time now, and, honestly, I think they > provide really useful information. They tell much more than just ''there > is more effort needed in this area'', they, if done well, provide > insights about the health of a community that, in my opinion, every Open > Source project should be considering very seriously. > > As an example, have a look at his ''community roundup'' from XS in > Edinburgh: > http://www.xenproject.org/component/allvideoshare/video/latest/xpds13-welcome.html > > So, if this allows for getting even more info with even less (or equal) > effort, I think it''s 100% worth it.It took me 3 hours to get that NEWCOMERS vs DROPOUT graph together (should have thought this through before I started and written a script). Doing graphs today is generally a pain (even with scripts and tools). Lars