Goal: Identify if the level of maturity the project has reached and whether it is growing or declining.
Goal: Identify how effective the community is at addressing issues identified by community partcipants.
| Name | Question |
|---|---|
| Open Issues | What is the number of open issues? |
| Closed Issues | What is the number of closed issues? |
| Issue Resolution Efficiency | What is the number of closed issues/number of abandoned issues? |
| Open Issue Age | What is the the age of open issues? |
| First Response to Issue Duration | What is the duration of time for a first response to an issue? |
| Closed Issue Resolution Duration | What is the duration of time for issues to be resolved? |
Goal: Identify how effective the community is at merging new code into the codebase.
| Name | Question |
|---|---|
| Code Commits | What is the number of code commits? |
| Lines of Code Changed | What is the number of lines of code changed? |
| Code Reviews | What is the number of code reviews? |
| Code Merge Duration | What is the duration of time between code merge request and code commit? |
| Code Review Efficiency | What is the number of merged code changes/number of abandoned code change requests? |
| Maintainer Response to Merge Request Duration | What is the duration of time for a maintainer to make a first response to a code merge request? |
| Code Review Iteration | What is the number of iterations that occur before a merge request is accepted or declined? |
Goal: Identify the size of the project community and whether it's growing, shrinking, or staying the same.
| Name | Quesiton |
|---|---|
| Contributors | What is the number of contributors? |
| New Contributors | What is the number of new contributors? |
| Contributing Organizations | What is the number of contributing organizations? |
| New Contributing Organizations | What is the number of new contributing organizations? |
| Sub-Projects | What is the number of sub-projects? |
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 Growth-Maturity-Decline.
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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