[ros-users] ROS Community Metrics Report

[Ingo Lütkebohle]

Hi Brian,

awesome :-) I particularly found the engagement stats to be quite
impressive, that's really showing how the community is involved. For
the future, I'd like to suggest that showing how the page-edits are
spread across users, and how big the edits are would make it even more
interesting. Also, the number and size of code-checkins are one
obvious addition that would be great to see.

btw, I'm not familiar with Google Analytics so I don't how much its
giving you that wasn't shown, but we found Piwik to be a very nice
tool, particularly because of the exit statistics, and the goal
tracking. With the latter, one can define "goal pages",
differentiating them from index pages such as /wiki/. Check out
http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-goals-web-analytics/ and
http://demo.piwik.org/ Its more geared towards a site-improvement look
than pure statistics, but does both very well.

keep up the good work :-)

cheers, Ingo

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Brian Gerkey <gerkey at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> The first ROS Community Metrics Report is available:
>  http://www.ros.org/wiki/Metrics
>
> The goal of this report is to provide an objective, quantitative
> snapshot of the size and activity of the community.  We want to get a
> sense of how the community is growing and changing, and what we can
> all do to have even more impact with our work.
>
> This report is our first attempt at measuring the community, and
> there's a lot of room for improvement.  Please help us make it better!
>
>        brian.
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Ingo Lütkebohle
Bielefeld University
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