[xwiki-devs] Health of the XWiki project

Hi, FYI, I’ve completely modified the old XWiki Health Page at http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ProjectHealth with new content and metrics. I’ve started doing some analysis of the metric data I’ve found but I’d like to discuss those with you all and see if we agree on the reasons for the values found and then together decide if we want to do something about it and what. Downloads ========= One worry I have is http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ProjectHealth#HDownloads It shows a reduction of downloads over the past 3 years, or, at best a stagnation. I’ve started the Active Installs module to get better feedback on this but at this moment it’s still to early since we have Active Installs history only since 6.1 (see the screenshot at http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Active+Installs+Server…). So are we really stagnating? Any idea why? Mailing List Activity ===================== http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/ProjectHealth#HMailingListsAc… Also going down. Any ideas? Am I reading these metrics right? Other ===== The other metrics are relatively ok. However I think these metrics show that the XWiki project is progressing at a stable rate both in term of usage (people using XWiki) and in term of code (# of commits, 1 of issues fixed every year, contributed code, etc). So the question raised are: - What could we do to increase the adoption speed of XWiki? - What could we do to increase the code progression rate? Which could be summed up as: what could we do to start having an exponential progression? I have some ideas but I’d like to hear from others first to see what they think. Thanks -Vincent