Metrics: Ideas of Data Sources

[Jason Taylor]

This is somewhat divergent from what Warren was talking about but do we
monitor network traffic and/or hardware utilization? I have used MRTG in
the past for this type of thing and it was rather handy.

-Jason

On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:31 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Just jotting down some ideas for additional Fedora Metrics.  Data over 
> time and graphs would be very useful in media to show using actual 
> numbers the growth of Fedora in activity, contributors and packages. 
> These graphs would also be very useful in making business cases to RH in 
> showing the success of Fedora investment, as we try to justify more 
> targeted investments.
> 
> Data Sources
> ============
> 1) cvsextras-sponsors at fp.org receives all of the notices where people 
> request and are granted access to the cvsextras group.  We have no 
> official mail archive of this.  Does anyone personally have an archive 
> of cvsextras-sponsors mail going back to the beginning when Sopwith 
> launched the system?
> 
> Harvesting that mail archive would allow us to graph absolute # of 
> Fedora package contributors over time.  This however tells us nothing 
> about activity.
> 
> 2) Check-in activity on the two commits lists could tell us:
>     - how many contributors were active in a given month
>     - how active was package activity in general
>     - how many new packages
>     - how many actively maintained packages
> 
> 3) Metadata within CVS could tell us similar information as above.
> 
> Any other ideas for potential statistics grabbing opportunities?
> 
> Warren Togami
> wtogami at redhat.co
> 
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