* Richard Brown <RBrownCCB@opensuse.org> [Dec 18. 2013 12:00]:
I don't think an Community-driven Open Source project can be effectively modelled by numbers, and I value 'human intelligence', gut feeling, and honest feedback from real people far more than cold hard numbers.
Too much numerical navel gazing can often lead to very warped and inappropriate conclusions, we've seen a lot of them lately. I'd like to think we can move forward in a way that reflects we're a community of human beings and not a collection of numbers on a graph :)
Richard, while I agree on your statement in general, gut feeling alone does not help to measure improvement. Still we need some kind of measurement in order to judge the effectiveness of any kind of change. This starts with defining a set of measurable indicators, define a baseline (where are these indicators now ?), and a set of goals (where do we want them to be ?). With this in place, start with a small change, measure improvement. Then adapt or do another change, measure again, etc. pp. Note I'm not saying that the indicators need to be numbers. But it need to be something measurable and comparable. Just my $0.02 ;-) Klaus -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org