This is a contrived approach serving no purpose other than as a vanity metric for some in Top 10. Would a small startup with more or all of its employers contributing to open source as #1? #vanitymetrics /cc @mjasay
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Replying to @sriramhere @cra
If it's a vanity metric it sure doesn't help my employer. ;-) (You'd think if I were aiming for vanity I would have found a way to include us and not a competitor. It's imperfect data, but it's still interesting, IMO.)
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Hey Matt, I don’t question your intention or integrity. It just didn’t seem meaningful. It might even make people question those that are really contributing (like MS)
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Replying to @sriramhere @cra
But you'd find that some *do* think percentage of employees (or engineers) contributing is a big deal. Google already commented that they measure it and they're #1. :-)
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Yes - those interested in vanity metrics, so that they can boast :). What is higher - 40% of 1000 or 3% of 131,000 or 100% of a hypothetical 5 member startup? Contribution per employee also differs within/ across companies, how would you account for that?
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Replying to @sriramhere @cra
At any rate, what I'm *most* happy about is that you're apparently volunteering to put together the perfect way to measure open source contributions. I await your largesse :-)
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:). Thank you for volunteering me in. My contribution would be most likely be around quantifying how open source helps/ enables end user, than who is contributing/ how much.
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You know what? There is a whole project
@linuxfoundation around community metrics - CHAOSS. With some wonderful projects like GrimoireLab to pull out real metrics (https://chaoss.github.io/grimoirelab/ ) Simply looking at Github doesn’t show what’s actually happening in open source as a whole.2 replies 3 retweets 13 likes -
Replying to @TechJournalist @sriramhere and
Sounds good yet I've seen nothing emerge from it. Does no one use this because it's not yet ready or because few yet know about it?
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Replying to @mjasay @sriramhere and
a bit of both…i suspect. Might be fun in say a months time, to run the same kind of analysis you just did, but in Grimoire/CHAOSS to see how (or if..) the results differ.
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@filmaj @felipehoffa Maybe of help to the analyses you both are doing?
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