On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:42 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 29 July 2012 16:01, Lewis Cawte lewiscawte@googlemail.com wrote:
On 29/07/2012 15:45, David Gerard wrote:
What are the statistics for volunteer contribution before and after Gerrit? Has anyone kept track of such numbers?
I believe, although I may not be correct, Sumana requested these a while back and has been looking at them... I'm not sure if it covers (new) volunteer contributors or not. I think one thing that if it isn't a positive statistic is that from my point of view is that the volunteer contributors that we're out there in the SVN days and the ones that actually committed regularly have not yet learnt or are not as willing to relearn how to contribute... I know from some small experiences a few that are unhappy or unwilling that they have to relearn things.
I was just asking for numbers. Your response looks very like making an excuse for bad numbers *before we have the numbers*.
I submit that if we know we have to prepare excuses for bad numbers before we even have the numbers, the current process may not have been a good idea.
I believe some numbers have made it into the Signpost around when the monthly reports come out.
Paraphrasing from memory, the basic trend has been: * Overall number of monthly commits is down (this is expected to some degree due to lack of "followups") * Number of contributors in labs/gerrit accounts has been increasing, and hasn't seem to hit a plateau just yet (new accounts every month)
-Chad