Connotation analysis for Fedora Project codenames

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

On 03/27/2012 12:18 AM, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
> On 03/26/2012 04:46 PM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
>> On 03/26/2012 06:45 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>> 18 release name vote to find out if
>>> there's a majority of (voting) contributors who would like the 
>>> release name
>>> to simply go away.
>>
>> Has it been looked into how many ( % ) of active contributors have 
>> voted in the release naming process each given cycle?
> Not necessarily in %, but the total number of votes cast is reported 
> with each set of election results.
>
> --------------
>
> The Fedora 17 release name is: Beefy Miracle
>
> Voting period:  Tuesday 2011-11-04 00:00:00 UTC to Monday 2011-10-10
> 23:59:59 UTC
> Number of valid ballots cast:  292
> ------------
>
> The Fedora 16 release name is: Verne
>
> Voting period:  Tuesday 2011-04-05 00:00:00 to Monday 2011-04-11 23:59:59
> Number of valid ballots cast:  421
>
> ------------
>
> The Fedora 15 release name is: Lovelock
>
> Voting period:  Tuesday 2010-10-26 00:00:00 to Monday 2010-11-01 23:59:59
> Number of valid ballots cast:  296
>
> -----------
>
> The Fedora 14 release name is:
>
>    Laughlin
>
> Following are the full election results.
>
> * * *
>
> Voting period:  Tue 2010-05-04 00:00:01 - Mon 2010-05-10 00:00:01
> Number of valid ballots cast:  206
>
> -----------
>
> ......13 (Goddard) had 313 ballots, 12 (Constantine) had 393 ballots, 
> 11 (Leonidas) had 310, 10 (Cambridge) had 390 ballots.
>
> Interestingly, the results for F10 actually included the number of 
> users eligible to vote, in addition to the number of valid ballots 
> that were cast. I didn't see anything since then in any of the 
> announcements that reflected the eligible voter number.

I would think that before deciding anything you will have to know how 
many community members actually bother/care enough to vote.

Certainly if you are about to add an voting option to drop the code 
naming release process.

Unfortunately these [1] statistics dont seem to be up to date.

Infrastructure really needs to provide an graph for the project of both 
new and active members.

Basically new user accounts created + number of logged in users  
daily.weekly.monthly graph which kinda is necessary to determine the 
project health status.

JBG

1.https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics#Contributors