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Formation Meeting Minutes 2017-03-21

On call

(alphabetical by first name):

  • Brandon Keepers
  • Georg Link
  • Kate Stewart
  • Matt Germonprez

We experienced technical issues with the conferencing system and switched to a different technology and started the meeting late.

Progress Report

  • The email list is set up
    • Who is on the mailing list?
      • Only the people on the call - to be expanded next
  • The wiki is set up

Structure of Metrics

  • We still need to flesh out the areas or categories of metrics
    • Peter Monks mentioned categories that resonate: Activity metrics / Viability metrics / Risk metrics
    • Matt and Sean Goggins are building out the metrics
      • What are the sources from which metrics can be generated?
      • How are the metrics related to each other, and how do they cluster around topics e.g. licensing or risk.

Ideas for structuring the Metrics Group

  • Three specialized groups:
    • A metrics definition group
      • What are the metrics and how are they defined?
    • A standards group
      • What is the standard data format to share and consume metrics?
      • The technology is probably split into two parts: A metric generating part and a metric display part. Both parts need to exchange metrics.
      • Should collaborate with the Tooling Group
        • Tooling Group has implementation and database to use as a starting point for standard setting
    • A research and development group

Bi-weekly meetings

  • When should we coordinate bi-weekly general meetings?
    • Right now they are formation meetings.
    • The discussion on metrics should occur on the mailing lists until the working group is formalized.
    • After the working group is formalized, we will set up general meeting for the members of the working group.

Next Steps

  • Waiting for governance documents from Mike Dolan
    • The Working Group will be one part of a larger working group:
      • A Tooling Group
      • A Metrics Group (this is group)
    • Waiting for the code group.
    • The governance will specify for example that the steering committee are the ones who are willing to put in the extra effort to maintain a code base or a document.
      • Work-rights on a document are commit rights equivalent to commit rights on code repositories
        • We do not expect a code base for the metrics group
      • Anyone who wants to be a member can sign the charter and be an officially listed member
        • All members can edit the wiki
  • Matt starts reaching out to more people to start the conversation
    • Let people know about the wiki and mailing list
    • Foster a discussion on the mailing list, maybe around unique or controversial metrics to get people interested and get the conversation going
  • Brandon edits the wiki page to make it more welcoming and turn it into the landing page of the Metrics Working Group
chaoss/metrics/minutes/2017-03-21-formation-meeting.txt · Last modified: 2018/02/03 15:19 by GeorgLink