Re: [Xen-devel] Developer Dashboards for Xen Project sub-projects (need input)

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth@xxxxxxx>]

On 27/11/2013 02:19, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> > But not every week, not every month either - quaterly is nice enough.
> > Or maybe once a year (say at Xen Summit?). But that should be possible
> > already right? Or is it a major pain to create those nice graphs?
> Yes, I also agree that we should pick-up a proper periodicity with which
> we look at this, or we risk going mad! :-)
The way how the tool works is to just automatically produce stuff from 
source.
> > What is the overall goal?
> >
> >  From my PoV my feeling is that:
> >   a). I need to hire more folks
> >   b). I have more things we want to do than there are
> >       developers.
> >
> > And I think the same is true for everybody else. But I don't know
> > if this dashboard will help in this regards?
> Well, I think it goes way beyond that.
>
> Lars is collecting numbers and plotting graphs similar to the ones this
> thing is able to produce from some time now, and, honestly, I think they
> provide really useful information. They tell much more than just 'there
> is more effort needed in this area', they, if done well, provide
> insights about the health of a community that, in my opinion, every Open
> Source project should be considering very seriously.
>
> As an example, have a look at his 'community roundup' from XS in
> Edinburgh:
> http://www.xenproject.org/component/allvideoshare/video/latest/xpds13-welcome.html
>
> So, if this allows for getting even more info with even less (or equal)
> effort, I think it's 100% worth it.
It took me 3 hours to get that NEWCOMERS vs DROPOUT graph together 
(should have thought this through before I started and written a 
script). Doing graphs today is generally a pain (even with scripts and 
tools).
Lars