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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Would someone like to have a go at developing
a first cut of some generic metrics that we can develop for people to use
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Jody's suggestions make a good starting
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Don't be shy, first in, first served.</font>
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Thank you for the insights Jody.</font><font size=3> <br>
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You have made some excellent suggestions that we as an OSGeo-AustNZ / ANZLIC
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Bruce.Bannerman@dpi.vic.gov.au wrote:<br>
> However this is probably unrealistic as to do this the developer
will <br>
> have to have existing credibility within the community and there may
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> be good reasons why the community does not want to have 'product X'
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> included.<br>
So start slow with some metrics reflecting getting involved in the <br>
community and making contacts.<br>
> Does anyone have any examples that they use or thoughts on the above?<br>
> I do understand that metrics can be abused, may be meaningless and
may <br>
> not be the best way to handle this, however we have to start somewhere.<br>
What a hard question ...<br>
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Try for a couple of the metrics you use when evaluating open source <br>
projects:<br>
- open development; what is their level of involvement on a scale of <br>
learning, helping, submitting patches, commit access, responsibility, <br>
responsibility<br>
- documentation and help (assume number of pages written/edited; or <br>
number of questions answered on the user list)<br>
- quality assurance: number of test cases produced<br>
- number of patches submitted, or number of bugs depending on level of
<br>
involvement... consider putting this on a scale so long standing bugs <br>
are worth more :-)<br>
- frequency of release (number of releases the employee assisted with <br>
via either tagging and packaging, testing; announcing etc...)<br>
- etc...<br>
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I recommend approaching the specific communities you wish to be involved
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in and asking where help is needed.<br>
> We have a window of opportunity to get some more developers working
on <br>
> OS projects as the Performance Planning cycle re-starts shortly and
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> I'd like to help our developers get some constructive ideas to take
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> into their sessions.<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jody<br>
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