9:19 a.m.
Hi mattdm ,
These questions seem very interesting and important to understanding Fedora
community and I would love to work on them.
However, I have a doubt - what do you exactly mean by 'core' contributors ?
Bee
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:39 PM, Justin W. Flory <jflory7(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 01/25/2016 05:40 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> I'd really like to be able to answer the questions:
>
> * How many core Fedora contributors are there?
> * How many casual but long-term committed contributors?
> * How about the long tail?
> * How does this break down by various project areas?
>
> with data.
>
> I have the hypothesis that Fedora follows the "90-9-1" rule, with a
> very active core, a larger engaged group that isn't as visible as
> individuals but which collectively contributes a lot, and then a lot of
> casually interested contributors who chime in occasionally. Is this
> true? Do the numbers come down to close to 90-9-1, or something else?
> Has it changed over time (opened up, or become more restrictive)?
>
> Then, building on the stats Bee (and Pingou) put together following the
> election.... another hypothesis: the average voter turnout of about 200
> is an approximation of the highly-engaged group (at least where the
> engineering side of the distro is concerned). Can you support or
> disprove this with data? (From fedmsg, mailing lists, or anywhere?)
>
> I also think that the same probably applies to Ambassadors and that
> election, possibly with little overlap of the FESCo set.
>
I added this data request as a ticket in our Trac in the meanwhile to help
us keep tabs on it. Seems like it would be a great task for an Outreachy
intern to take on too.
https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-commops/ticket/31
I took a guess at the milestone (F24), feel free to adjust as necessary.
--
Cheers,
Justin W. Flory
jflory7(a)gmail.com
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