On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Why do you need to track that? Why does any volunteer organization want to keep track of the amount of time individuals are committing and what things they are doing? We want to make sure we are putting human resources into the overall project in a way that we aren't creating bottlenecks, or worse in a way that is wasteful. The most critically important resource we have is available volunteer time and goodwill, and we need to start looking seriously at how well we are managing those resources as they come into the door. We need to make sure that when we encourage people to participate we are doing it a way that we are asking people to spend time in a way that makes a positive impact. And we need to find ways to measure that impact. If we think mentoring is a good idea, then we need to try to measure that impact. But we cant really gauge impact unless we have a reasonable estimate of the manhours going in. More important for me we need to try to make a long term effort to trend the impact of different areas of 'contribution' that we stand up. Unless we attempt to track manhours spent in different areas how do we ever really get a handle on whether we need to push one area over another through a project wide recruitment program? Different parts of the project are going to grow organically on their own...but not necessarily at the same rate. As one bit grows it can create growing pains for other groups, and its exactly this sort of imbalance that we need to watch out for and respond to via recruitment drives. -jef _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
