[Bigbang-dev] Governance document changes

[Niels ten Oever]

Let's build a tool for Git and mailinglist analysis to do just that ;)

On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 10:22 -0400, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
> I think that's a great idea, Niels.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately, we don't yet have the technology to efficiently keep
> track of that kind of activity. But there is an open ticket for it.
> I've linked to this thread on that ticket.
> 
> 
> https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/issues/237
> 
> 
> 
> I think it would be cool if we had scripts included in BigBang that
> made the necessary calculations for the governance process. But I
> propose that we table all these issues until after the 0.2 release.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Niels ten Oever <niels at article19.org>
> wrote:
>         Hi Sebastian,
>         
>         I like this addition and I don't think we need to add much
>         else. But if
>         you want to measure more coordination activities, one could
>         also add
>         stats on opening and closing tickets as well as mailinglist
>         traffic. But
>         I guess this is a bit of a rabbit hole :)
>         
>         Cheers,
>         
>         Niels
>         
>         On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 15:18 -0400, Sebastian Benthall wrote:
>         > I made a couple changes to the Governance document:
>         >
>         >
>         > https://github.com/datactive/bigbang/wiki/Governance
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > The main substantive change was saying explicitly that for
>         purposes of
>         > identifying members of the Steering Committee, we consider
>         the 'number
>         > of commits' to be the sum of the commits to the master and
>         > gh-pages branches.
>         >
>         >
>         > This is to recognize formally that work on outreach and
>         public
>         > presentation of the project is an important contribution to
>         the
>         > project, comparable to contributions of source code.
>         >
>         >
>         > Of course, "number of commits" is a crude measure of
>         participation. As
>         > noted in our last meeting, a cool use of BigBang would be to
>         try to
>         > come up with a better meritocratic measure of participation
>         for
>         > purposes of self-governance.
>         >
>         >
>         > That said, all this procedural stuff is just laying a
>         foundation for
>         > later. Most important is that we do the necessary work to
>         push to the
>         > 0.2 release!
>         >
>         >
>         > - Seb
>         
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