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Formation Meeting Minutes 2017-04-18

Governance Document

  • Update:
  • One goal of the governance document is to encourage participation from the entire open source ecosystem and especially other foundations and communities not hosted by the Linux Foundation.
  • The OSS Health Metrics group will be one part of a larger group that includes analytics software seeded by Grimoire Lab
  • The Governance document combines these efforts while giving each part-autonomy.
  • For the OSS Health Metrics group, an important aspect is to be technology agnostic and create metrics that can be implemented by anyone, including but not limited to Grimoire Lab.
  • The metrics specification, documentation, queries, and sample code would be licensed under MIT license.
  • Name of group is still not decided.

Metrics Conversation

  • One concern for creating metrics is that they will be used inappropriately.
    • Metrics cannot apply to all communities because they are all unique.
    • Possible inappropriate use: thresholds for metrics to determine maturity from an incubation process
    • Metrics should not be used for comparing communities.
    • Metrics can provide a sense of changes within the community.
    • For example, is a community gaining momentum or is it growing?
    • We might not create metrics that are human centered
    • Using metrics to compare contributors and maintainers might not be in our value framework
  • No one knows what the right metrics are for any given purpose
    • We might determine portfolios of metrics used in combination to measure something we all care about
    • For example:
      • Momentum
      • Growth
    • The metrics can be combined to inform our understanding of the above, but for each community, we might choose a different combination of metrics.

Next steps

  • We finalize the Governance document but don't wait for it.
  • We continue the conversation on the mailing list.
  • We open up the bi-weekly calls and post the information on the wiki page.
  • We propose a BoF session at the Open Source Summit North America 2017 in Los Angeles, CA - watch mailing list for draft.

On Call

(alphabetical by first name)

  • Georg Link
  • Kate Stewart
  • Kevin Lumbard
  • Matt Germonprez
  • Miju Han
  • Ray Paik
  • Sean Goggins
chaoss/metrics/minutes/2017-04-18-formation-meeting.txt · Last modified: 2018/02/03 15:19 by GeorgLink