LogoLogo
  • CHAOSS Community Handbook - Table of Contents
  • Handbook Usage
  • ABOUT
    • CHAOSS History
    • Values
    • Roadmap
    • Roles and Responsibilities
    • Community Guidelines
    • Path to Leadership
    • Terminology
      • CHAOSS Specific Terms
      • CHAOSS Committees
      • CHAOSS Community Working Group Terminology
      • CHAOSS Community Mentorship Terminology
    • Terminology Usage
    • General FAQ
  • COMMUNITY
    • Working Groups
      • WG Repository Structure
    • Metrics
      • Releases
      • Translation
      • Metrics FAQ
    • Community Report
    • CHAOSScon
    • CHAOSScast
    • CHAOSS Meetings
  • CONTRIBUTING
    • Development
      • Contributing Workflow
    • Documentation
      • Style Guide
    • Design
      • Design Workflow
      • Design Contribution
      • CHAOSS Visual Identity
    • Outreach
  • MENTORSHIPS
    • Google Summer of Code
    • Google Season of Docs
    • GSoC/GSoD Roles & Responsibilities
    • Outreachy
  • D&I BADGING
    • Overview of the D&I Badging
    • How to contribute
    • Apply for a badge
      • Apply for an In-Person Event
      • Apply for a Virtual Event
    • Reviewing for CHAOSS
      • Apply to Review
      • The Review Process
      • Conflict of Interest Policy
    • Badging Roles
      • Applicant
      • Reviewer
      • Moderator
      • Maintainer
    • The badging-bot
    • D&I Badging Code of Conduct
Powered by GitBook
On this page
  • 👥 CHAOSS Metrics Committee
  • ✍ Process of getting metric approved to be visible on the website
  • When should a previously released metric be returned to community review?
  • 🧐 Some Metric Useful Resources

Was this helpful?

Export as PDF
  1. COMMUNITY

Metrics

Process of metric approval

PreviousWG Repository StructureNextReleases

Last updated 3 years ago

Was this helpful?

👥 CHAOSS Metrics Committee

The CHAOSS Metrics Committee defines implementation-agnostic metrics for assessing open source communities' health and sustainability. The CHAOSS Metrics Committee's goals are to establish implementation-agnostic metrics for measuring community activity, contributions, and health; and optionally produce standardized metric exchange formats, detailed use cases, models, or recommendations to analyze specific issues in the industry/OSS world.

All the metrics are released within the "" page on the CHAOSS website

✍ Process of getting metric approved to be visible on the website

  • We already have many metrics listed under various working groups but you can also propose your own metric if you don't find listed in the existing metrics.

  • There are different working groups that foster around their focus areas. So once you have a valid plan for your metric, we find a working group that is best aligned and has an interest in the metric.

  • We add the metric to our

  • Someone writes a draft for the metric using our using google docs. The person proposing the metric could do this.

  • The working group discusses the metric and makes the required changes.

  • A markdown version of the metric is added to the working group repository.

  • The metric is ready for the

When should a previously released metric be returned to community review?

  • Whenever there is a language or terminology change that would affect other metric references.

  • Changing the name of a metric (in any way)

  • Any changes that go beyond grammar or spelling fixes in the sections:

    • Question

    • Definition

    • Objectives

    • Implementation

  • Does not require review:

    • Grammar or spelling fixes (not including metric name)

    • Updates to sections References and Contributors

🧐 Some Metric Useful Resources

Release History
Here is the list of all the existing metrics within CHAOSS
Metrics Tracking Sheet
Template for Metric
Continuous Metric Contribution and Regular Release
Metrics Definitions
Metric Release History
Metric Repository
Metric Template
Metrics Tracking Sheet
Continuous Metric Contribution and Regular Release