During the Member
Summit that recently took place a proposal that surfaced and gained quite
a bit of support was to investigate the possibility of moving away from
the current approach based on the binary Incubation/Active status in favor
of a maturity rating system where various items could be measured with
a level of completion as a percentage.
This is not an
entirely new idea as we've discussed something like that in the past, Hart
I think first came up with the idea of some kind of badging mechanism that
could be displayed on the website, giving the reader the info to judge
on the maturity of a project by themselves rather than trying to encompass
all the different dimensions at play into a single metric.
As we know, several
projects are stuck in Incubation due to a lack of diversity and the current
rating system doesn't provide for a way to communicate that two projects
in Incubation might be very different with regard to activity level, size
of user community, etc. A finer grained rating system would address this
problem.
I'd like us to
start a discussion on this on this week's call and see whether there is
enough interest to warrant investing in developing a proposal.
Regards.
--
Arnaud Le Hors - Senior Technical Staff Member, Blockchain &
Web Open Technologies - IBM
