Goal: Identify the diversity and inclusion within a project.
Goal: Identify the diversity of individuals within a project.
| Name | Question |
|---|---|
| Contributor Demographics | What are the gender, age, location, education, and skills of contributors? |
| Leadership Demographics | What are the gender, age, location, education, and skills of leadership (e.g., Board, Technical Steering Committee, and Maintainers)? |
| New Contributors* vs Maintainers** | What is the ratio of new contributors to maintainers? |
Goal: Identify the diversity of organizations within a project.
| Name | Question |
|---|---|
| Contributing Organizations | What is the number of and who are the organizations contributing to the project? |
| Contributions per Organization | What is the number of contributions from each organization? |
| Contributors per Organization | What is the number of individual contributors from each organization? |
| Maintainers per Organization | What is the ratio and number of maintainers from each organization? |
| Maintainer Organizational Representation | What is the number of organizations represented by maintainers? |
| Maintainer Commit Organizational Diversity | What is the ratio and number of commits from each maintainer for all authors grouped by organization? |
Goal: Identify how effective the community is including and promoting members.
| Name | Question |
|---|---|
| Accepted Code Contributions from New Contributors | What is the percentage of new contributor code versus total code? |
| Accepted Project Contributions from New Contributors | What is the percentage of any project contribution from new contributors vs all accepted contributions? |
| Path to Maintainership | Is a path to maintainership published? |
| Maintainer Promotion | When was the last time a maintainer was added? |
| Change in Maintainer Number | What is the number of maintainers added/removed? |
*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 name/question pairs listed are not meant to represent a fully comprehensive list. It is expected that this list will evolve as people have insights and thoughts about the name/question pairs that comprise Diversity and Inclusion.
Tooling: The name/question pairs are intended to be a starting point for CHAOSS-related software. It is expected that this list will evolve based on the ability (or inability) of software to successfully implement the specific name/question pairs.
Background: The name/question pairs have been identified based CHAOSS-related outreach activities. We thank everyone who participated.
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