proposal for a new beat

[Rahul Sundaram]

Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Max Spevack wrote:
>> I'd like to add a "Statistics & Metrics" beat to the bottom of each 
>> issue.  I'll be the beat writer.
>>
>> It would pull in the weekly information from /wiki/Statistics and also 
>> work with the new fedora-weekly-metrics code that luke macken is 
>> hacking on.
>>
>> Does anyone object to me adding this new beat?
> 
> No objections, I think it is useful info, an exercise in transparency 
> (the part showing  the download numbers) and a way to emphasize the 
> active contributors (it would be also interesting to have some data 
> beyond the wiki, like most active developers or bug triagers).

I agree with that. Highlighting wiki edits is all good but doing it in 
FWN would not be fair to a large number of contributors spending time on 
other important areas. If you are going to recognize contributors, do so 
in a more comprehensive way.

Rahul