Release 2021-03

The fourth CHAOSS metrics release.

Metrics from the Common Metrics WG repository that are part of the release are:

• What: Contributions
  • Technical Fork (✅ new)
  • Types of Contributions
• When: Time
  • Activity Dates and Time
  • Burstiness (✅ new)
  • Review Cycle Duration within a Change Request (✅ new)
  • Time to First Response
  • Time to Close
• Who: People
  • Organizational Diversity
  • Contributor Location
  • Contributors

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♻️ Metrics revised in this release:

• None

✅ Metrics added in this release:

• Technical Fork
• Burstiness
• Review Cycle Duration within a Change Request

🚫 Metrics Removed in this release:

• None

⚠️ Other changes

• None

Release 2020-08

The third CHAOSS metrics release.

Metrics from this repository that are part of the release are:

• What: Contributions (⚠️ added)
  • Types of Contributions (✅ new)
• When: Time
  • Activity Dates and Time
  • Time to First Response
  • Time to Close (✅ new)
• Who: People
  • Organizational Diversity
  • Contributor Location (✅ new)
  • Contributors

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♻️ Metrics revised in this release:

• None

✅ Metrics added in this release:

• Contributor Location
• Time to Close
• Types of Contributions

🚫 Metrics Removed in this release:

• None

⚠️ Other changes

• Added Focus Area "What" with Goal: Understand what contributions from organizations and people are being made.

Release 202001

The second CHAOSS metrics release.

The focus areas of the Common Working Group were changed to:

Focus Area	Goal
Who	Understand organizational and personal engagement with open source projects.
What	Understand what contributions organizations and people are being made.
When	Understand when contributions from organizations and people are happening.
Where	Understand where contributions from organizations and people are happening.

Metrics from this repository that are part of the release are:

• Who: People
  • Organizational Diversity
  • Contributors (new)
• When: Time
  • Activity Dates and Time (new)
  • Time to First Response (new)

All metrics follow a new template and have been improved based on feedback from the community.

The Common Working Group is working on more metrics that may be included in future releases.

Release 201908

The first CHAOSS metric release.

Metrics from this repository that are part of the release are:

• Organizational Diversity

The Common Metrics Working Group is working on more metrics that may be included in future releases.