On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 9:24 AM, inode0 <inode0@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It could but does it and to what extent? Is it a good metric for the > > number of contributors joining the project? What does it look like if > > we overlay the recent stagnant download trend with the recent > > statistics showing numbers of contributors over the same period? > Be very careful here. What you really want to do is look for a > characteristic cross correlation time...essentially slide the trending > graphs of the download metric and contributor metric across each other > looking for the best time offset that maximizes how the graphs > correlate. I believe numpy(or is it scipy I'll have to look) has a > cross correlation function built in. Get me two years of data binned > weekly for both download and contributor metrics and I can do the > correlation analysis. > We also have no valid way to measure contributors that have left. -Mike _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
