Community participation metrics

Is the community diverse and passionate?

• Where are contributions coming from?
• How many contributions are being made?
• Does the community have an opportunity to meet in person?
• Is someone tasked with addressing the community's concerns?

What is the progress compared to investment?

• Does the community have a public roadmap?
• Does the community have public meetings?
• How quickly is the community achieving its stated goals?
• How much “leveraged engineering value” is the community providing?

Is community participation and leadership growing?

• What is the rate of change of contributions over time?
• How large is the (active) community?
• How easy is it to join the community?
• What is the barrier to making an initial contribution?
• Are community members in places of leadership?
• Are community members distinguishing themselves as potential Red Hat

hires?

BUG TRACKING

• Number of bugs submitted by not-@redhat.com
• Bugs addressed by non-@redhat.com (comments, etc.)
• Who logs the bug, who fixes, who closes

DOWNLOADS

• Integrate Sacha's JBoss metrics
• Fedora yum connection tracking
• Fedora MirrorManager
• Fedora downloaded package count

COMMUNICATION

• Size of a project's IRC channel and mailing lists.
• @redhat.com vs. non-@redhat.com breakdown on IRC and mailing lists.

COMMITS

• New wiki pages from non-@redhat.com
• Wiki pages edited by non-@redhat.com
• Number of commits from non-@redhat.com
• Total commits to the project.