Re: Re: [DISCUSSION/ VOTE] Proposal on hosting CHAOSS GrimoireLab for the SkyWalking community

[Yihao Chen <yi...@apache.org>]

Hello,

Just a quick follow-up of this one, since no major objections were communicated, shall we start to proceed on this?

Kind regards,

Yihao Chen (Superskyyy)

On 2021/10/25 00:15:58 Sheng Wu wrote:
> Hi Yihao
> 
> Thanks for the proposal.
> For the community, I noticed Yihao started this setup days ago, and
> feel like this project is good to open the statistics of the community
> to the public.
> Although we are not treating these statistics as indicators, the
> number would go higher and drop lower from time to time, such as
> 1. Before a new release, the traffic of mail list and pull requests
> will definitely be higher than usual.
> 2. Time near the public holiday, the traffic would be very few and all
> places are silent.
> 3. A stable subproject has nothing to do with, such as our today's LUA
> script agent.
> 
> I want to be clear, these statistics mean nothing but numbers, the
> trend sometimes matters(only when provided context before the
> numbers), like our website's google analytics.
> 
> To deploy this as a new tool, just could provide us some new
> perspective. We never should take action to increase some numbers or
> make the graphs seem more attractive, that is never the SkyWalking
> community's agenda.
> 
> I could help on finding an env sponsor to deploy this tool if there is
> no objection.
> 
> Sheng Wu 吴晟
> Twitter, wusheng1108
> 
> Yihao Chen <Su...@outlook.com> 于2021年10月24日周日 下午11:49写道：
> >
> > Hello community,
> >
> > I’m writing this proposal to promote the deployment of CHAOSS GrimoireLab (https://chaoss.community/ ), a set of community health metrics and open-source tool-chain maintained by a group of developers and researchers. To put it simply, it automatically generates a range of rich metrics/visualizations coming from our Git, GitHub repo, IRC, Twitter, Mail list, and more. The goal is to facilitate community growth and identify potential health problems.
> >
> > Please refer to this official demo(https://chaoss.biterg.io/ ) for a quick feeling of the charm of this tool. You can navigate through different dashboards and timeframes via the top-right bar.
> >
> > If I counted correctly, there are over 30 projects in the SkyWalking ecosystem, either official or hosted outside of the foundation. We can use this tool to help us get a clear view of the activities from a high level. From this step, we can face our strengths and problems and fix them as a community.
> >
> > I propose to start a skywalking-community(or another name, currently - https://github.com/Superskyyy/sw-community ) repository in the foundation, where only a set of configuration files, customized dashboards and a deployment script will be hosted there. The GrimoireLab tool-chain is under GPLv3, but we can deploy its image directly; nothing violating the rule is added to the foundation.
> >
> > The resulting web dashboard is available for everyone to visit and serves as a community showcase to our developers, users, and the people to join us in the future.
> >
> > Please provide your opinions and vote on the matter.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Yihao Chen (Superskyyy)
> >
> >
>