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Hi Josh

On Mon 08 Jul 2013 07:42:20 PM CEST, Joshua McKenty wrote:
> Stefano, it seems like we're getting a proliferation of "stats and
> analysis" efforts, including Mirantis's newly
> launched http://www.stackalytics.com/. Would you be up for
> spearheading a new OpenStack "program" to coordinate these various
> efforts?

Sure, I like to think that I'm already  half-way there with the 
Activity Board. Http://activity.openstack.org is the program I run now 
that wants to be the 'official' way to get useful stats and metrics. 
"Useful" in this context is data and metrics that are needed to manage 
the community and the development teams. We don't do comparisons with 
other projects and we are adding more and more features, sources and 
datapoints based on the feedback from project managers and users (see 
the first release of data from gerrit on the dash 
http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scr.html).  We are working 
hard to make sure that the data is correct and meaningful for 
day-to-day consumption, not just for quarterly reports and flashy 
announcements.

There is also a topic for the openstack-dev mailing list with 
interesting discussions coming from PTLs and project managers 
(http://openstack.markmail.org/search/?q=subject%3A[metrics]+list%3Aorg.openstack.lists.openstack-dev 
to get an idea of what is discussed there).

I believe Mirantis started their effort before Activity Board was 
available and stackalytics was born out of their internal need to track 
lines of code (a metric that many in openstack-dev believe has less 
priority than other data points currently missing in Activity Board).
Qingjye similarly had his own itch to scratch when he started doing the 
comparison across different projects.

What problem you believe such multitude of reports not coming from the 
Foundation  is creating?

/stef

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