diff --git a/doc/source/organizations/index.rst b/doc/source/organizations/index.rst index fad9b4e..8d0ec29 100644 --- a/doc/source/organizations/index.rst +++ b/doc/source/organizations/index.rst @@ -240,7 +240,18 @@ Community Culture painful process (via links to further reading on effective open source community involvement) -* Good metrics are hard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law . +* The community does not officially endorse Stackalytics, a contribution + statistics gathering service hosted by Mirantis. The community does not + encourage attempting to boost one's contribution statistics by + proposing large quantities of low-value commits or voting on large + numbers of change proposals without providing thoughtful reviews. + Activities like this appear to other members of the community as an + attempt to game the system and contributors who engage in this will + often lose credibility for themselves and their employers in the community. + Instead, contributors should try to engage deeply with a single project or a + small number of projects to gain understanding of the software component and + build relationships with the other contributors for that project. + * Focusing staff on particular project areas, or towards particular goals is more effective than asking them to track activity over many projects.