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On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 05:18:21PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:53:25PM -0300, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > Anne Gentle wrote:
> > >       - Less than 1 in 4 blueprints is created before the devel
> > >         period starts for a release.
> > > 
> > > I find this date mismatch especially intriguing, because the Foundation
> > > and member company sponsors spend millions on Design Summits annually
> > > and caters so much to getting people together in person. Yet the
> > > blueprints aren't created in enough detail for discussion before the
> > > Summit dates? Is that really what the data says? Is any one project
> > > skewing this (as in, they haven't been at a Summit or they don't follow
> > > integrated release dates?)
> > 
> > That does not surprise me. A lot of people do not link a blueprint to
> > their session proposal on the design summit session suggestion system --
> > sometimes it's the discussion itself which allows to formulate the right
> > blueprints, and those are filed in the weeks just after the summit. And
> > I think that's fine.
> > 
> > It would be more interesting to check how many blueprints are created
> > more than two weeks after the design summit. Those would be the late
> > blueprints (or the ones created as a tickbox), which escape the release
> > planning process.
> 
> I'll look up the historic dates for each summit, and try to generate
> some stats based on blueprint creation date vs  summit date + 2 weeks.

Re-running using the summit date + 2 weeks shift things a little bit.
Here is the  summary for 3 most recent series:


Series: folsom all
  Specs: 177
  Specs (no URL): 145
  Specs (w/ URL): 32
  Specs (Before Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000): 62
  Specs (After Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000): 115
  Average lines: 5
  Average words: 54


Series: grizzly all
  Specs: 255
  Specs (no URL): 187
  Specs (w/ URL): 68
  Specs (Before Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000): 81
  Specs (After Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0000): 174
  Average lines: 6
  Average words: 61


Series: havana all
  Specs: 470
  Specs (no URL): 378
  Specs (w/ URL): 92
  Specs (Before Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000): 197
  Specs (After Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000): 273
  Average lines: 6
  Average words: 69


Full data set for version 3 of the stats is now here

  http://berrange.fedorapeople.org/openstack-blueprints/v3/

Regards,
Daniel
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