#chaoss-community: CHAOSS weekly hangout

Meeting summary

1. comparison of metrics tools, led by Jason (glink, 19:10:39)
   1. IDEA: should we set up comparison use cases for each tool? (glink, 19:11:06)
   2. IDEA: one feature that would be helpful in a tool is custom classifications on top of trace data to allow for custom visualizations and analysis, e.g. theory: incubating projects are more active than mature projects (glink, 19:14:48)
   3. GrimoireLab is great in its modular setup and API accessibility. (glink, 19:16:37)
   4. https://metrics.symphony.foundation (glink, 19:20:12)
   5. http://blog.symphony.foundation/by-the-numbers-2017-so-far (glink, 19:21:51)
   6. A workaround for lack of diagraming in metrics tools is to export the compiled data and create diagrams in Excel, R, Octave, D3.js, or other diagraming tools (glink, 19:24:05)
   
   
2. correlation between metrics (glink, 19:24:14)
   1. Question: What impact does changing specific metrics have on other metrics? (glink, 19:25:08)
   2. One challenge is personal information such as location of contributors. (glink, 19:27:49)
   3. ACTION: Matt will share a fork of the CHAOSS repo with ongoing work in correlating metrics and building them out. (glink, 19:29:10)
   
   
3. comparison of metrics tools, led by Jason (glink, 19:29:42)
   1. It would be great to have a first version of the tool comparison document published by the end of this year. However, the document will be updated going forward. (glink, 19:34:35)
   2. https://github.com/jasontclark/chaoss-product-comparison/blob/master/research.md (glink, 19:40:43)
   3. IDEA: merge the information on the Wiki into the Website and get rid of the wiki (reduce the places CHAOSS meets). (glink, 19:57:25)
   4. ACTION: Create comparison criteria for metrics tools (https://github.com/jasontclark/chaoss-product-comparison/blob/master/research.md#purpose (glink, 19:58:43)
   5. https://github.com/jasontclark/chaoss-product-comparison/issues/3 (glink, 20:01:14)
   6. Next week is the monthly meeting. Topic request: CHAOSS at Open Source Leadership Summit (glink, 20:02:33)

Action items

1. Matt will share a fork of the CHAOSS repo with ongoing work in correlating metrics and building them out.
2. Create comparison criteria for metrics tools (https://github.com/jasontclark/chaoss-product-comparison/blob/master/research.md#purpose

People present (lines said)

1. glink (27)
2. collabot (4)
3. jasondotstar (2)