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+2 for one system to track these details. Lots of noise whenever a new
system comes out and its not fully accurate. Seems better to just avoid
that noise in the first place.

On 7/8/13 11:27 AM, "Tim Bell" <Tim.Bell at cern.ch> wrote:

>
>It seems a pity to have duplicate efforts, especially when there are
>useful blueprints to help profile deployments like
>https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oslo/+spec/opt-in-stats-tracking that
>could benefit from some community attention.
>
>Tim
>
>From: Joshua McKenty [mailto:joshua at pistoncloud.com]
>Sent: 08 July 2013 20:24
>To: Stefano Maffulli
>Cc: Yujie Du; Gordon, Joe; Boris Renski; marketing at lists.openstack.org;
>Qingye Jiang; user-committee at lists.openstack.org;
>community at lists.openstack.org
>Subject: Re: [User-committee] [OpenStack Marketing] [openstack-community]
>qyjohn's quarterly report of the size and health of the 4
>open source projects is out
>
>I believe that the OpenStack marketing community sees comparisons to
>other open source cloud frameworks as significant competitive
>positioning. Accuracy in that data would be valuable to the whole
>community.
>
>I *know* that a number of OpenStack member companies use their "position"
>in terms of ATC contributions as a marketing point, and
>having an accurate baseline for those numbers might also be valuable. For
>example, DreamHost has suddenly become the most
>substantial contributor to Quantum *ever*. :)
>
>http://www.stackalytics.com/engineers/markmcclain?metric=loc&period=havana
>&project_type=incubation
>
>As for myself, I often use the count of individual members, corporate
>members, and total committers in sales and marketing materials
>- and I've found a number of discrepancies in the user database that I
>find concerning (duplicate names, etc.). Solid, official data
>is valuable for everyone - and I think inviting these other projects to
>join the activity board effort, by making it an openstack
>project itself, could be a great way to get there.
>
>--
>
>Joshua McKenty
>Chief Technology Officer
>Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.
>+1 (650) 242-5683
>+1 (650) 283-6846
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>
>"Oh, Westley, we'll never survive!"
>"Nonsense. You're only saying that because no one ever has."
>
>On Jul 8, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Stefano Maffulli <stefano at openstack.org>
>wrote:
>
>
>Hi Josh
>
>On Mon 08 Jul 2013 07:42:20 PM CEST, Joshua McKenty wrote:
>
>Stefano, it seems like we're getting a proliferation of "stats and
>analysis" efforts, including Mirantis's newly
>launched http://www.stackalytics.com/. Would you be up for
>spearheading a new OpenStack "program" to coordinate these various
>efforts?
>
>Sure, I like to think that I'm already  half-way there with the
>Activity Board. Http://activity.openstack.org is the program I run now
>that wants to be the 'official' way to get useful stats and metrics.
>"Useful" in this context is data and metrics that are needed to manage
>the community and the development teams. We don't do comparisons with
>other projects and we are adding more and more features, sources and
>datapoints based on the feedback from project managers and users (see
>the first release of data from gerrit on the dash
>http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scr.html).  We are working
>hard to make sure that the data is correct and meaningful for
>day-to-day consumption, not just for quarterly reports and flashy
>announcements.
>
>There is also a topic for the openstack-dev mailing list with
>interesting discussions coming from PTLs and project managers
>(http://openstack.markmail.org/search/?q=subject%3A[metrics]+list%3Aorg.op
>enstack.lists.openstack-dev
>to get an idea of what is discussed there).
>
>I believe Mirantis started their effort before Activity Board was
>available and stackalytics was born out of their internal need to track
>lines of code (a metric that many in openstack-dev believe has less
>priority than other data points currently missing in Activity Board).
>Qingjye similarly had his own itch to scratch when he started doing the
>comparison across different projects.
>
>What problem you believe such multitude of reports not coming from the
>Foundation  is creating?
>
>/stef
>
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