Thank you Sumana for the forwarding. Maybe this is a better list to discuss http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_Community_Metrics further anyway.
On 09/28/2012 01:10 PM, Quim Gil wrote:
Even if it's too tempting to define the first prototype thinking first on tools or data available, you are encouraged to start by proposing what questions do you want actually answered. What community trends do you want to know?
A first proposal to stir your pros and cons:
=== Developers ===
* [[Developers]] with [[Gerrit]] access. ** Reviewers. ** Core developers with merge permissions. ** Active in the past week / month / year. ** WMF employees, other MediaWiki professionals, hobbyists. ** Countries where they work from. * New accounts. ** How many requests (approved, declined?) per week / month / year. ** Primary motivation: new or existing project - which projects. ** WMF employees, other MediaWiki professionals, hobbyists. ** Countries where they work from.
=== Software projects ===
* [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/ Projects in Gerrit] ** Types of project: MediaWiki core, extensions, mobile, infrastructure... ** Active in the past week / month / year. ** Officially supported. ** Considered stable, beta, experimental. * Data per project: ** Commits (merged, rejected, waiting) and reviews. ** Committers and reviewers. ** WMF employees, other MediaWiki professionals, hobbyists. ** Countries where they work from.
Do you agree on the priority of these data points?
I wonder how much of this can already be extracted with http://gerrit-stats.wmflabs.org/ . /me must look deeper.
The first roadblock found has been
Bug 40662 - Can't create a new gerrit-stats report https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/40662
See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_Community_Metrics#Trends_t...
- in few days we should have agreed on the first and most important
trends we want to visualize.
PS: http://www.ohloh.net/p/mediawiki/contributors seems to be stuck in svn?
-- Quim
On 10/01/2012 09:35 AM, Quim Gil wrote:
A first proposal to stir your pros and cons:
I have added feasibility status for each data entry. Now all is full of red exclamation marks but hopefully the green check marks will find their way soon.
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Qgil/MediaWiki_Community_Metrics#Trends_t...
There are basically three types of problems:
* Data exists, but how to retrieve it from Gerrit? Your help here is crucial. Examples: number of users, most recent activity, etc.
* Data exists, but how to retrieve it from the web server? And are we ok with doing this? This refers to the location of the contributors. Since we are not asking for this data or processing at all, the IP origin might be an alternative. Knowing where we are is useful, but what is the best way to retrieve this data?
* We are not processing the data. Even if it exists, it is somewhere else, manually entered, etc. Examples: WMF employees or hobbyists, stable or experimental projects... Here the best help is to push a decision on the relevance of these trends. Not so important, can be left for later? Very important and we need to change something in order to gather and process this data?
=== Developers ===
- [[Developers]] with [[Gerrit]] access.
** Reviewers. ** Core developers with merge permissions. ** Active in the past week / month / year. ** WMF employees, other MediaWiki professionals, hobbyists. ** Countries where they work from.
- New accounts.
** How many requests (approved, declined?) per week / month / year. ** Primary motivation: new or existing project - which projects. ** WMF employees, other MediaWiki professionals, hobbyists. ** Countries where they work from.
=== Software projects ===
- [https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/admin/projects/ Projects in Gerrit]
** Types of project: MediaWiki core, extensions, mobile, infrastructure... ** Active in the past week / month / year. ** Officially supported. ** Considered stable, beta, experimental.
- Data per project:
** Commits (merged, rejected, waiting) and reviews. ** Committers and reviewers. ** WMF employees, other MediaWiki professionals, hobbyists. ** Countries where they work from.
-- Quim