On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Joerg Simon jsimon@fedoraproject.orgwrote:
replying to his own is also not healthy ;) but i want to add something
On Wednesday 14 October 2009 15:20:49 Joerg Simon wrote:
I think there is a risk to fail if one is trying to succesfully transport business measurement techniques one to one from business world into a
FOSS
Project. Measurement is about control and business controlls will not
work
here. But maybe we can adopt some of it!
If you want measure success you need to quantify and measure that is for sure!
Measurement of success is great, but the definition of "success" is very
broad. This is a form of output. In some social ventures success can be measured as social impact. From a technical side in Fedora, I believe this measurement is easier and can be measured by the innovations applied to every new release. From the non-technical aspect, it is a little more difficult to measure "success" That is why this is a good discussion of how we can measure this side of our "success".
i know you are very eager to start and that is the reason i try provide you an answer for your questions - maybe we can achieve something great
by
combine things from both world.
The right way to do things like that in fedora, would be a new "fedora statistics group" which could be a place for all people who like to gather data from fas, love to quantify and for people who want to interpret such things - the benefit, it keeps the "deal with us own" in this group. Away from the groups who want to be productive and do not wan't wasting time with such things (like writing scripts which will have no direct impact to the release itself) How sounds that?
A fedora statistics group would be good, but it is only the start. We
need to know from the start what statistics/metrics/data we would like to produce and for what reasons we are producing these measures.
cu
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