Understanding what drives growth in our open source communities can and should inform project decision making. But how can we measure the health and growth of Apache projects? How useful are metrics such as web traffic, committer activity, JIRA issues, and patches to provide insight? And how do project milestones including feature releases, becoming a TLP, and press/marketing impact metrics month-over-month?
This presentation will introduce community metrics for Apache Aurora (currently in the Incubator) and Apache Mesos (TLP that graduated July 2013). As a case study, I'll provide an overview of metrics I've collected from incubation to today, and point to milestones in their histories that have led to substantial growth in activity. Attendees will come away with an understanding of how milestones impacted these metrics, and how they may evaluate the health of their own projects.
Tuesday April 14, 2015 2:00pm - 2:50pm CDT
Zilker 3
