On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Hayden, Katherine M. wrote:
What are your critiques/feedback? Is that what you were looking for
Yaakov?
This is a fantastic set of proposed metrics, Katherine, and I thank you
for posting it to the list.
Currently Yaakov is doing most of the development work on EKG, and it's
happening basically under a set of priorities that I have given him.
From the metrics point of view, I asked him to start with mailing
lists,
and from there move to looking at the various metrics we can generate
around commits.
Further down on the list that we made in February was bugzillas and
wikis, but I also asked Yaakov to be sure to design the data structures
in such a way that there could be various "sources" of data and
"facts"
associated with those sources, and he's done that.
So a source can be a mailing list, or a git repo, or a wiki, and the
facts are messages, commits, or edits.
My guess would be that it's fairly modular and simple to add a new
source and to then generate, store, and analyze the facts associated
with that source, but I can't say with certainty since I haven't tried
to modify any of that part of the code yet.
My hope is that EKG will eventually be able to be a clearinghouse for
lots of these metrics that you propose. The limiting factor right now
is basically engineering resources, which are coming from Yaakov based
on his part-time internship with Red Hat.
--Max