Metric Idea: Planning metric

[vinodkahuja]

Goal is to evaluate whether open source project has systematic plan for work they do or they just do on ad hoc basis. For example some projects have plans and goal and they develop software and add features as planned in their planning document. As with corporate involvement many open source are performing very planned actives. Where as other open source projects just adding features on ad hoc basis as and when need arises without any formal planning.
This metric can track the planning document of an open source project.

Reference:
Fitzgerald, B. 2006. The Transformation of Open Source Software. MIS Quarterly. 30(3) 587-598.

[GeorgLink]

Matt G mentioned the https://www.openchainproject.org/ as related. This is for vendors who can get a Conformance Badge. The OpenChain metric is discussed in the Risk WG. -- maybe above proposal is already covered by this, discuss with Risk WG?

[germonprez]

@vinodkahuja do you have thoughts on how to move this forward?

[vinodkahuja]

@germonprez my initial thought was to check whether an open source project has a planning document or not. Planning documents can be in various forms like our CHAOSS planning document of metric or AGL Road map. These documents guide the activities performed in these open source projects and work is done systematically. Though new work ideas come in random but still work is executed in a planned fashion following a defined process.
I am unsure what to took into that planning document to ascertain whether work is done systematically or not. We can brainstorm as we move the discussion on this metric in our goal question metric template.
If you are fine with this idea, I can create an initial goal question metric template for this proposed metric and we can brainstorm it further in one of the working group meetings.

[germonprez]

Okay. I've labeled it as a metric idea.

The idea seems difficult to determine but that shouldn't preclude taking a closer look. Yes, if you want to create a template and put it in the spreadsheet, that would be great.