CHAOSScast

Episode 71: What's New in CHAOSS: Podcast Reboot Episode

Oct 5, 2023

The CHAOSScast team discusses the relaunch of the podcast and focuses on the development of metrics and metric models in the Chaos Project. They highlight the importance of understanding context, consolidating metrics, and categorizing them for accessibility. The podcast also covers the evolution of Auger and updates in Grimoir Lab, data management and enrichment in CHAOSS, community growth and initiatives, and moments of joy.

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The CHAOSS Project is focused on developing metrics and metric models to measure the health of open source communities and has created context groups to address specific concerns in different projects or communities.

Efforts are being made to consolidate and organize metrics, making them more accessible to users by categorizing and tagging them, as well as providing insights through metric models that focus on specific aspects of open source community health.

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ChaosCast Relaunch and Project Update

The podcast episode discusses the relaunch of ChaosCast and provides updates on the current state of the Chaos Project. The panelists introduce themselves and share their roles within the project. They highlight the development of metrics, metric models, and software tools to assess the health of open source communities. The creation of context groups within Chaos Project is mentioned, which brings people together to openly discuss health-related concerns in specific contexts. The panelists also talk about the importance of interpreting metrics and trends, rather than viewing them as absolutes, and how the Chaos Project aims to support users in understanding and improving community health. Additionally, they discuss the progress in the Augur and GrimoireLab softwares, scalability improvements, migration to OpenSearch, and data management challenges. The episode also highlights the growth of the Chaos community, the establishment of local chapters in Africa and Asia Pacific, the implementation of event and project badging initiatives, and efforts to enhance newcomer experiences and project management. The positive outcomes of the Chaos DEI Reflection Project and the value of diverse perspectives in the community are emphasized. The panelists conclude by sharing personal value adds, including enjoying living in a self-designed house, morning bike rides, a warm vacation, and moments of joy from nature photography and family bonding.

Introduction

3min

Developing Metrics and Metric Models in the Chaos Project

19min

Evolution of Auger and Updates in Grimoir Lab

7min

Data Management and Enrichment in CHAOSS: Public Access and Improvements

4min

CHAOSS Community Growth and Initiatives

12min

Moments of Joy and Pride

2min

Thank you to the folks at Sustain for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!

CHAOSScast – Episode 71

In this episode, the CHAOSScast team is back! Georg Link, Dawn Foster, Sean Goggins, Matt Germonprez, and Elizabeth Barron discuss the relaunch of the podcast after taking a short break. They delve into the fascinating world of open source community health, focusing on metrics, metric models, and the CHAOSS Project’s role in measuring the health of open source communities. They share insights on how they’re working to make metrics more accessible and how they interpret these metrics within the context of specific projects. Additionally, they highlight the Data Science Initiative, the growth of CHAOSS community chapters worldwide, and their initiative to improve newcomer experience and promote diversity and inclusion in open source. Download this episode now to find out much more!

[00:02:48] We hear more about where CHAOSS is with developing metrics and metric models and the Context Groups they’ve developed to bring together individuals interested in the health of specific projects or communities.

[00:06:06] The Metric Development Process is brought up, which is the process of defining and releasing metrics has evolved. While some working groups still develop metrics, there’s an effort to consolidate and organize metrics to make them more accessible to users, including categorizing and tagging them.

[00:08:11] Dawn brings up Metrics Models which are collections of metrics that provide insights into specific aspects of open source community health. These models help users understand various phenomena in open source software health and use metrics effectively.

[00:12:14] Georg brings up something new called the Data Science Initiative within CHAOSS, and Dawn talks about her role as Director of Data Science. The initiative aims to provide guidance to users of CHAOSS metrics and tools for interpreting data effectively and she tells us all the key areas that it’s focused on.

[00:16:14] Matt asks Dawn about the balance between maintain an agnostic stance on metrics and providing more guidance to users in interpreting metrics. Dawn discusses the importance of helping users interpret metrics in the context of their specific projects.

[00:17:55] Georg and Dawn talk about using metrics as pointers to prompt users to investigate specific aspects of their communities and projects.

[00:18:53] Elizabeth asks if CHAOSS should play a role in advising users on how to make changes in their communities based on metric insights without adversely affecting other metrics. Dawn shares her thoughts and Sean mentions the experience of CHAOSS members in evaluating different communities and interpreting metrics.

[00:20:34] Georg expresses excitement about the future of CHAOSS and its journey.

[00:21:54] Sean provides an overview of Augur and its evolution over time, including its ability to capture large volumes of data and the development of an API.

[00:24:19] Georg discusses recent developments in Grimoire Lab, including multi tenancy support, scalability improvements, and optimization of data enrichment processes. He also talks about the migration of Grimoire Lab from Elasticsearch to OpenSearch for data storage and visualization, and Sorting Hat, a module within Grimoire Lab for managing identities.

[00:27:40] Dawn asks about the future use of Kibiter, the Kibana fork used in Grimoire Lab, and Georg confirms a full migration to OpenSearch and Open Search Dashboards, indicating that Kibiter may be phased out.

[00:28:52] Matt asks about recent challenges and achievements related to data management and data cleaning in Augur and Grimoire Lab. Sean mentions the importance of data in operationalizing metrics and making them tangible. Georg emphasizes two critical aspects of data quality.

[00:33:32] Elizabeth shares insight into the growth of the CHAOSS community. She discusses the challenges of managing the growing community, and a group CHAOSS is partnering with called “All in” to develop badging for open source projects, addressing scalability challenges.

[00:41:53] Elizabeth talks about the DEI Reflection Project which was crucial in identifying blind spots and improving the CHAOSS community. It led to valuable recommendations, including enhancing the newcomer experience and promoting diversity and inclusion.

Value Adds (Picks) of the week:

[00:44:30] Georg’s pick is living in his new house that he loves.
[00:45:11] Matt’s pick is his cool morning bike rides to his office.
[00:45:44] Dawn’s pick is a warm, sunny vacation she took in Malta.
[00:46:15] Elizabeth’s pick is seeing her granddaughter getting excited to see flowers, birds, mushrooms, and be out in nature.
[00:46:48] Sean’s pick is his daughter, an English PHD student, who published her first academic paper, and has another up for a revise and resubmit.

*Panelists: *

Georg Link

Dawn Foster

Matt Germonprez

Sean Goggins

Elizabeth Barron

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