Community-led development "The Apache Way"
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## Description: The mission of Apache Kibble is the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator. ## Issues: We have no issues to raise to the board's attention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Kibble was founded 2017-10-17 (3 years ago) There are currently 14 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 7:6. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-08. - Michał Słowikowski was added as committer on 2020-10-21 - Tomasz Urbaszek was added as committer on 2020-10-18 ## Project Activity We had a huge uptick in participation in the past quarter, both on our mailing lists and in code contributions. ## Community Health As I have mentioned in many past reports, we struggle with being, in reality, a single-developer project. This quarter we broke out of that mold dramatically, with two new committers added in October. We are very excited to see what we hope is a new chapter in our project's life.
## Description: The mission of Apache Kibble is the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at present. ## Membership Data: Apache Kibble was founded 2017-10-18 (3 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. ## Project Activity: Community outreach is being done, helping other open source communities utilize Kibble for gaining insights into development trends and community/diversity statistics for individual projects as well as organizations and communities as a whole. Due to time being spent in other Apache projects and life outside Open Source, the project code-base has not changed much this quarter. We helped out Project Jupyter[1] assess their code-base and developer make-up, and are looking at other similar projects to help spread what Kibble can help communities achieve. [1] https://jupyter.org/ + https://jupyter.kibble.dev ## Community Health: The community remains a small handful of people. We do have oversight and >=3 active PMC members, but would love to grow the community.
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## Description: The mission of Apache Kibble is the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator ## Issues: We have no issues to raise to the board at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Kibble was founded 2017-10-17 (3 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-08. - No new committers. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. ## Project Activity: After several months of no activity at all, we had a handful of messages in May. This included a discussion of deeper involvement in the CHAOSS project. We also had more traffic on the issues list than in months past. ## Community Health: We are pleased to see interest from CHAOSS, which we feel is an important organization to be involved with to ensure the longevity of this project. But we continue to be starved for new contributors. While there was an uptick in commits towards the end of the quarter, they were, once again, all from the same contributor.
## Description: The mission of Apache Kibble is the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Kibble was founded 2017-10-17 (2 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-08. - No new committers. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. ## Project Activity: Sharan gave a 20 minute talk[1] at chaosscon[2] (one of the events in the FOSDEM Fringe - events surrounding FOSDEM in Brussels) featuring kibble. We got lots of interest especially around the sentient analysis. Chaoss are keen to include kibble but we need to do the work to highlight how we align (or not) to the Chaoss definitions. ## Community Health: The community is healthy, although still small, and struggling to add new members. We continue to have a great deal of interest at events, but that doesn't often result in actual new contributors. Meanwhile, the project has sufficient oversight and continues steady forward progress. [1] https://chaoss.github.io/website/CHAOSScon/2020EU/slides/Measuring-Culture.pdf [2] https://chaoss.community/chaosscon-2020-eu/
## Description: The mission of Apache Kibble is the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator ## Issues: We have no issues that require board input or intervention at this time. ## Membership Data: Apache Kibble was founded 2017-10-17 (2 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-08. - No new committers. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. ## Project Activity: We had another very quiet quarter, with the dev list almost entirely silent. There were only a handful of commits, once again all coming from one person. It is hoped that we are able to make connections at CHAOSSCon which will parlay into more active developers. ## Community Health: Daniel Gruno presented on Kibble at the recent ApacheCon North America in Las Vegas. https://www.apachecon.com/acna19/s/#/scheduledEvent/1099 Kibble hopes to participate in the upcoming CHAOSSCon at FOSDEM, on Friday, January 31st in Brussels. Sharan Foga reports that the Gnome Foundation is interested in using Kibble to generate statistics on their projects. The ASF Board Report Wizard, which is powered by Kibble, has seen an uptick in usage over the past quarter.
## Description: The mission of Apache Kibble is the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention. ## Membership Data: Apache Kibble was founded 2017-10-18 (2 years ago) There are currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is 1:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. - No new committers. Last addition was Rafael Weingärtner on 2017-12-09. ## Project Activity: The Kibble demo moved to new hardware, where we were able to expand our demo project to cover all of the ASF's repositories, mailing lists and bug trackers. This should hopefully mean a wider use from the Apache community, and thus more feedback. Issues were raised[1] about, and efforts put into, scanning GitHub and other resources at a massive scale (like the ASF). We were able to work with the respective APIs and rules and come up with a process that works well at large scale. ComDev have started pulling data from the Kibble demo into the new reporter tool wizard. (This report was drafted and published via that tool.) There are talks about also implementing metrics in Whimsy from Kibble. A paper was written[2] by a member of the PMC using data gathered from Kibble to support the validity of the claims in it. [1] https://s.apache.org/e5wgi [2] https://s.apache.org/w2gy6 ## Community Health: With Kibble being a relatively small and slow project in mind, we saw a good uptick in issues opened, and discussions surrounding them. We continue to be concerned (as we say almost every quarter) by the fact that practically all of the actual code/doc commits are being made by one person, and most comments/issues raised are of the "please do this for me" type. We clearly need to focus on attracting developer/committer interest in the project.
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing
activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time.
## Activity and Health
The was an uptick in traffic on the issues list - 16 emails sent to list (0 in
previous quarter) - reflecting new activity from new contributors. However, we
still remain in a situation where almost all code is from one contributor,
which is a continuing source of concern.
We continue to engage with other metrics agencies, with CHAOSS being at the
top of that list. But this has not yet, so far, mapped into much actual new
activity.
We have had requests to add new sources to Kibble, which shows that new users
from within Apache are becoming interested in understanding and using the
stats that we provide. Most recently, we added Tuweni. And we have engaged
with the dev lists of these projects to let them know that they've been added,
in the hopes of receiving further feedback from those communities.
To answer questions from last report:
On the "finding more people interested in the project" and
"research on the topic" part - are you aware of the work being done at
https://osr.cs.fau.de/people/ (I just recently came across several
publications by Maximilian Capraro and Michael Dorner on open source and
inner source activity metrics.)
I am not specifically familiar with these people and their work. Others on the
project may be. I will start a discussion of those individuals on our lists,
and attempt to reach out to them. Thank you.
Another question to think about when trying to recruit more volunteers:
How easy is it to setup Kibble without any prior experience? How easy is
it to extend it?
The process for getting Kibble running -
https://apache-kibble.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup.html - is indeed a little
intimidating. There has been discussion in the past about how to simplify, or
package, so that getting started isn't quite so onerous, but here, too, we
suffer from lacking the volunteer effort to make this happen.
As for ease of extending - we believe it to be fairly easy, but the proof is
in people actually trying and reporting their success - something that we have
so far mostly lacked.
Another question one could think about: Who are potential users and where
do you find them (inside and outside the ASF)?
Potential users include any organization with some kind of Open Source
Programs Office, who wants to analyze their company's participation in open
source. And any university which is doing research in open source in general.
It may indeed be worthwhile trying to reach out to those groups specifically.
We get good responses from both of those groups to our demos at FOSDEM, but
followup is weak.
Thank you for your questions, as they indicate useful directions where we
might do more active outreach.
## PMC changes:
- Currently 12 PMC members.
- No new PMC members added in the last 3 months
- Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017
## Committer base changes:
- Currently 12 committers.
- No new committers added in the last 3 months
- Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017
## Releases:
We have not yet made a release.
## Mailing list activity:
List activity was flat from previous months, with the exception of the
increased traffic on the issues@ list, as mentioned above. We hope that this
is a trend that will continue. Issues, and associated pull requests, were
responded to swiftly, and the individuals involved appear to have remained
engaged. Time will tell.
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity and health In February, we had community representation at CHAOSSCon, the annual conference of the CHAOSS workgroups, who do work around community metrics in FLOSS. This was a very positive interaction for everyone concerned, and many new ideas came out of that event. Daniel Gruno presented a lightning talk about what we’re doing. Kibble also was represented at the Apache booth at FOSDEM, and we ran demos for many interested attendees. Discussions at the events have led to a shift away from simply providing metrics reporting, and more towards asking the end-user what kinds of questions they wish to answer, and adapting to those questions. Discussion also began around integration with Slack and Bitbucket for metrics collection purposes. Sharan has provided a more detailed write-up of these events on our dev mailing list, at https://s.apache.org/OEB1 Despite all of the interest and positive interactions, we continue to struggle to find actual participants in the code-part of the project itself. We hope that following up on some of our contacts from FOSDEM will turn the tide on this. There remains adequate (>= 3 PMC members) oversight on the project, and on the more philosophical/design-wise level, we have discussions going and being started. We did have a query from a University student interested in joining the effort, but we have not heard back from them in recent weeks. A suggestion that arose at FOSDEM for future conferences was lowering the bar for contributions by allowing instant subscriptions to mailing lists at the Apache booth. While we have plenty of interest in the project from users, we seem to suffer from "conference amnesia" where in people forget their interactions due to the sheer volume of inputs. ## PMC/Committer changes: - Currently 12 PMC members and 12 committers - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017 - Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Releases: We have not yet made a release ## Mailing list activity: This quarter was, for us, an uptick in mailing list traffic, largely around our activities at FOSDEM.
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity and health We had another quiet quarter. There was some discussion of participating in the upcoming CHAOSS summit at FOSDEM, and a handful of commits. Some off-list conversations were had at various events, including Open Source Summit in Edinburgh, with individuals who expressed interest in the project. These have not translated into actual project engagement. It is concerning that *ALL* commits in this quarter (indeed, much longer than that) have been from one person. This is, obviously, not the hallmark of a sustainable project. ## PMC/Committer changes: Currently 12 committers and 12 PMC members. No new PMC members in the last 3 months. Last PMC addition: Sat Dec 09 2017 (Rafael Weingärtner) No new committers in the last 3 months. Last committer addition: Sat Dec 09 2017 (Rafael Weingärtner) ## Releases: We have not yet made a release. ## Mailing list activity: Another quiet month on all of our mailing lists. We hope that discussions at FOSDEM will once again spark some interest, and new contributors.
## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues that require the board's attention ## Health and Activity: After several months of silence, discussion has started back up on the dev list, with discussion of mood and sentiment analysis. There was also a brief discussion of getting feedback from our pilot projects. Overall, the project remains quiet, but appears to be reemerging from a summer lumber. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Releases: - Kibble has not yet made a release, but an off-list (IRC) conversation started about the desirability of doing one. ## Mailing list activity: The lists were almost entirely silent over the summer, but discussion is now starting back up again.
Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity and health This quarter has, again, been very quiet. We had some interesting discussions (at FOSDEM, in February) with organizations and open source projects that expressed an interest both in using, and participating in, Kibble, however there has been no followup from them. We intend to proactively reach back out to them in the coming month to see what their plans are. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - No new PMC members added in the last 3 months - Last PMC addition was Rafael Weingärtner on Fri Dec 08 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 12 committers. - No new committers added in the last 3 months - Last committer addition was Rafael Weingärtner at Sat Dec 09 2017 ## Releases: We have not yet made a release. ## Mailing list activity: All of our lists have been silent in the last month, and moderately quiet for the duration of the quarter. We suspect that this is because many of our community members have had other thing pressing on their attention the last few months, and that we will see a resurgence when those things abate.
########################### ## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. http://kibble.apache.org/ ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Health and Activity: The last month has been very slow on the project development side. Kibble participated in the Apache presence at FOSDEM, giving demos of the project. This was extremely popular, with people standing 3-deep to watch the demo and ask questions. This included several organizations who indicated interest not only in using the project, but contributing to it. In the coming month, there's a focus on improving the documentation to ease the user onboarding. The ASF issued a press release about the establishment of Kibble - https://s.apache.org/wMMa - which we hope will bring us some additional attention. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since project establishment (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: The mailing lists have been very quiet for the last few weeks, as we all were focused on FOSDEM. We anticipate renewed activity in the coming month.
########################### ## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: The past month has been quiet, between various holidays, vacations, and illnesses. I'm sure we'll spring back into life in the coming weeks. We continue to hear from various ASF projects that want to participate in the data/metric gathering part of the project. ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. We remain healthy as a project, although a significant number of our members have been not so healthy in the past weeks. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since graduation (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: Activity was down over the past month, but we expect a resurgance in the coming weeks, particularly once FOSDEM is over.
## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time. ## Activity: There are many voices on the dev list. In particular, we're seeing people from other projects who are interested in being part of our effort to spin up a demo instance of Kibble with live projects participating. We've reached out to all ASF projects, and have heard back from many of them. You can see these projects, and their metrics, at https://demo.kibble.apache.org/ ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. We're particularly excited about this participation from a wide cross-section of ASF projects, as we believe that it will result in steering our feature set towards functionality that is useful to actual projects, rather than us trying to figure that out in a vacuum, or based on our own academic interests. We also believe that this will, eventually, grow our user and developer communities as projects observe the benefits of the functionality we provide. ## PMC changes: - Currently 12 PMC members. - We voted Rafael Weingärtner in to our PMC on December 6th, 2017 ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No new committers since graduation (October, 2017) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: As mentioned above, mailing list activity is encouraging for this point in our project's development. We are very encouraged by the level of conversation, and by projects jumping into our demo instance.
## Description: Apache Kibble is a suite of tools for collecting, aggregating and visualizing activity in software projects. ## Issues: There are no issues requiring board attention at this time ## Activity: The project is starting up as a TLP within the Apache family. October was a month which saw many community members doing a ton of travel, which hampered the project somewhat. Nonetheless, the project has managed to set up its initial web site, code repositories, and a demo instance of the Kibble software suite. The community will be working towards defining goals and contacting interested parties (such as other PMCs at Apache interested in taking part in our community analyses). One of the many benefits of being part of the Apache family is ready access to a lot of interesting projects from both a technical and - equally important - community aspect, and we'll be working with the ASF projects to determine what projects would like to see emerge from Kibble in terms of trends, breakdowns, aggregations etc that can help shed some light on how projects and their communities are doing. There has also been discussion of what metrics are useful, or at least potentially useful, and how we might engage with projects to get their input on what metrics they consider important measures of project health, as this will vary from one project to another, and may be very different for projects outside of the ASF. ## Health report: The project has sufficient (3+ PMC members) oversight. It is too early to contemplate progression of community health, but we will of course keep the board apprised of any changes. ## PMC changes: - Currently 11 PMC members. - All PMC members added in the last 3 months ## Committer base changes: - Currently 11 committers. - No changes (the PMC was established in the last 3 months) ## Releases: - No releases yet. We tentatively plan to have our first release within the next six months. ## Mailing list and bug tracker activity: As we have just started, it makes little sense to discuss these stats yet.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Kibble Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Kibble Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator; RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Kibble" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Kibble Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Kibble Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Kibble Project: * Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org> * Ulises Beresi <ucb@apache.org> * Daniel Takamori <pono@apache.org> * Sean Palmer <sbp@apache.org> * David Nalley <ke4qqq@apache.org> * Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org> * Sally Khudairi <sk@apache.org> * Christofer Dutz <cdutz@apache.org> * Sharan Foga <sharan@apache.org> * Herve Boutemy <hboutemy@apache.org> * Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Rich Bowen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Kibble, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Kibble PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Kibble Project. Special Order 7B, Establish the Apache Kibble Project, was approved by Unanimous Vote of the directors present.
WHEREAS, the Board of Directors deems it to be in the best interests of the Foundation and consistent with the Foundation's purpose to establish a Project Management Committee charged with the creation and maintenance of open-source software, for distribution at no charge to the public, related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that a Project Management Committee (PMC), to be known as the "Apache Kibble Project", be and hereby is established pursuant to Bylaws of the Foundation; and be it further RESOLVED, that the Apache Kibble Project be and hereby is responsible for the creation and maintenance of software related to an interactive project activity analyzer and aggregator; RESOLVED, that the office of "Vice President, Apache Kibble" be and hereby is created, the person holding such office to serve at the direction of the Board of Directors as the chair of the Apache Kibble Project, and to have primary responsibility for management of the projects within the scope of responsibility of the Apache Kibble Project; and be it further RESOLVED, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache Kibble Project: * Daniel Gruno <humbedooh@apache.org> * Ulises Beresi <ucb@apache.org> * Daniel Takamori <pono@apache.org> * Sean Palmer <sbp@apache.org> * David Nalley <ke4qqq@apache.org> * Rich Bowen <rbowen@apache.org> * Sally Khudairi <sk@apache.org> * Christofer Dutz <cdutz@apache.org> * Sharan Foga <sharan@apache.org> * Herve Boutemy <hboutemy@apache.org> * Larry McCay <lmccay@apache.org> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Rich Bowen be appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache Kibble, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed; and be it further RESOLVED, that the initial Apache Kibble PMC be and hereby is tasked with the creation of a set of bylaws intended to encourage open development and increased participation in the Apache Kibble Project. Special Order 7J, Establish the Apache Kibble Project, was tabled.