How much/what/where are they contributing*? Who is driving successful projects? Who is behind an open source project? * Contributions can be made by code, issues, requests, etc.
retaining contributors? Are projects community-driven or enterprise-driven? How diverse is your community? Who are projects top contributors? Where does my community come from? Where else my community contributes to?
(issues, requests, comments)? How long does it take to add new features? Are people engaged with the project/company? Is the project/company allowing innovation?
but sharing data is the first step toward community” Henry Louis Gates Jr., IBM/Linux Commercials Community Health Analytics Open Source Software chaoss.community grimoirelab.github.io
held against. Anything you measure will impel a person to optimize his score on that metric. What you measure is what you’ll get. Period”. You Are What You Measure by Dan Ariely
a set of corporate, division and project business goals and associated measurement goals for productivity and quality 2. Generate questions (based on models) that define those goals as completely as possible in a quantifiable way 3. Specify the measures needed to be collected to answer those questions and track process and product conformance to the goals 4. Develop mechanisms for data collection 5. Collect, validate and analyze the data in real time to provide feedback to projects for corrective action 6. Analyze the data in a post mortem fashion to assess conformance to the goals and to make recommendations for future improvements
our overall community health to help determine the areas where we are doing good and the areas where we can help improve.” Jamie Sammons - Developer Advocate at Liferay Inc.