[polarsys-iwg] Maturity Assessment meeting minutes

[Boris Baldassari <boris.baldassari@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hiho,

Thank you for joining the Maturity Assessment meeting. Here are a few 
notes about what was said, and the next steps.

# Next steps

* Take the survey! => http://goo.gl/forms/gwemY0DRQI
It will run until the 12th of December. It is important to have as much 
feedback as possible, so please do not hesitate to share it with your 
colleagues. It's quick and helpful.

* Monday, the 15th of December, 4pm UTC: Analysis of the review and 
freezing of the features for the first version of the PMM.
I'll send the phone numbers for the conf as a separate email.


# Scales

A series of scales has been proposed. Their definition depends on the 
sources of data, so we explained the process for each of them:
http://dashboard.castalia.camp/documentation/scales.html

As an example we have:
Number of ITS updates (256) => Scale => 4 out of 5 (quite good)


# Aggregation of metrics

We have now a mechanism to aggregate values, from normalised metrics to 
concepts and quality attributes. Weights can be assigned to each node to 
increase or decrease their importance in the final mark, by default all 
nodes are equally important. The mean is used for the aggregation.
The quality model has also been improved to visualise it easily.


# Remarks from participants

The forums or nntp are not being analysed for now, which means that we 
miss the activity, diversity etc. for projects that do not use mailing 
lists.

We should differentiate missing data and null values, to measure the 
confidence in the metric. Needs to be further discussed.


Please do not hesitate to ask questions, send comments, etc.

Have a great week,


--
Boris