Pilot LFX Insights On The Express Project

[bensternthal]

I was chatting with Ulises earlier this week about some of the metrics we have available to us in LFX (the Linux Foundation community tool) and we both thought the Express project would be a good candidate to test out LFX Insights. If this works well, we'd like to roll it out to other OpenJS projects.

What Is LFX Insights Insights provides projects with more visibility into their community dynamics, particularly around contributors, organizations, issues, and pull request metrics. It does this through an app (similar to the DCO bot) installed at the organization level. This is then enabled for one or more repos under the organization. Insights uses crowd.dev under the hood to gather read-only data about specified public repositories in a GitHub organization.

What Information Is Collected (only public information from Github)

• Stars/Un-stars
• Forks
• Issues
• Pull requests
• Discussions
• Comments on issues/pull requests/discussions
• Closing of issues/pull requests/discussions

Future Ideas We’d like to use insights to display security metrics for OpenJS projects including those being currently developed as part of the Sovereign Tech Fund initiative/score cards/ best practices etc. Use this data to help inform which if any projects should be Emeritus.

What I Need From The Project I’d like a) A thumbs up from the TSC if we are OK to proceed b) Any question or concerns C) Who from Express should have access to the data (community managers)

How Do We Turn This On I need to be made an admin (this can be temporary) on the Express org, this will allow me to install the read only Linux Foundation app. Once I install the app my privileges can be revoked.

More Info You can find Insights documentation here.

@UlisesGascon @wesleytodd