When comparing different communities, open source or otherwise, it's critical to realize the assumptions underlying the comparisons and to compare apples and oranges. One way to do so is to use rates of change, or percentages, but getting them out of noisy data can be tricky.

1. Can we compare communities
or are they all unique snowflakes?
Donnie Berkholz, Ph.D.
Research Director — Development, DevOps, & IT Ops
FLOSS Community Metrics meeting, Jan 2016

2. Case study: containers
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Case study: configuration management
http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2015/04/02/quantifying-configuration-management-communities/

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Case study: configuration management
http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2015/04/02/quantifying-configuration-management-communities/

7. Rates! That’s the ticket!
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Method 1 - crap Method 2 - lukewarm Method 3 – WIN!
Raw data

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Thank you!
Donnie Berkholz
Twitter: @dberkholz
donnie.berkholz@451research.com

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