| Activity Metric | Description |
|---|---|
| New Contributors* vs Maintainers** | Ratio of new contributors to maintainers over time |
| Contributor Demographics | Gender, age, location, education, and skills over time |
| New Contributor Corporate Affiliations | New corporate affiliations over time |
| New Contributions | Percentage of contributions (patches, pull requests, etc.) from new contributors vs all accepted contributions over time |
| Accepted Code Contributions | Percentage of new contributor code versus total code over time |
| Path to Maintainership | Path to maintainership published |
| Maintainer Promotion | Last time a maintainer was added |
| Change in Maintainer Number | Number of maintainers added/removed over time |
*Contributor = Anyone who provides a patch, pull request, wiki change, or other contribution. **Maintainer = Contributor who has commit rights to the main branch and can merge contributions from others.
Disclaimer: The activity metrics listed are not meant to represent a fully comprehensive list. It is fully expected that this list will evolve as people have insights and thoughts about the activity metrics that comprise Diversity and Participation. It is very likely that activity metrics in Diversity and Particpation are not able to be fully articulated via online trace data. In particular, Contributor Demographics is likely best understood through self-reporting. See: https://github.com/drnikki/open-demographics
Tooling: The activity metrics are intended to be a starting point for community health related tooling. It is expected that the activity metrics will evolve based on the ability (or inability) of tooling to successfully implement the activity metrics.
Background: The activity metics have been identified based on workshops at the Open Source Leadership and the Open Source Summit North America. In addition, the activity metrics are based on active CHAOSS mailing list conversations. The activity metrics listed here are the result of compiling the discussions to data. We thank everyone who participated.
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