Open Stack

Thanks John, it's always interesting to see comparisons among different 
projects. Although comparisons are hard to make :)

I was looking at the "Participating Ratio", the ratio between “the 
number of  posts” and “the number of topics” that in your post you 
assume it represents the participation rate of an online community.

In your post you argue that "the number of replies to a specific topic 
represents the attention being received, and the depth of discussion for 
that particular topic" basically assuming that a high ratio is always 
better. I disagree with this assumption.

My explanation for decreasing depth of discussions is that the topics 
discussed are less controversial and require less amount of messages to 
close. For OpenStack, patches and changes to code are not discussed on 
the mailing lists anymore but they are debated (sometimes heavily) on 
review.openstack.org instead (which your tools don't capture) while 
afaik cloudstack and other projects seem to review patches on the -dev 
mailing lists. Comparisons across these projects are hard indeed.

You highlight OpenStack's decreasing 'participating ratio' leaving in 
the reader the impression that this must be bad but I don't think that's 
the right conclusion (nor the only one).

I would suggest you to rename "participating ratio" into 
"participating-bickering ratio": slightlgy longer but more neutral; 
lowering "participating-bickering ratio" is neither good nor bad and it 
forces reader to go investigate the causes (and you avoid being 
mis-quoted by some blogger/pundit that doesn't have time to dive deeper 
in the causes).

Have you investigated and found other reasons for why the 
participating-bickering ratio changes so much for OpenStack (especially 
in the early days) and Cloudstack?

Cheers,
stef

PS just a heads-up: we've added https://ask.openstack.org in March to 
our properties, so next quarter please add it as a source to your dataset


On 04/02/2013 02:32 AM, Qingye Jiang (John) wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am glad to present to you the 6 edition of my quarterly analysis on
> this subject. CY13-Q1 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs
> Eucalyptus vs CloudStack is now available for your reading at the
> following URL:
>
> CY13-Q1 Community Analysis — OpenStack vs OpenNebula vs Eucalyptus vs
> CloudStack <http://www.qyjohn.net/?p=3120>
>
> In this report I have added some preliminary analysis on the github
> activities of these 4 projects.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Qingye Jiang (John)
>
>
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