Release History

CHAOSS metrics are released continuously. The regular release is when we update the version number, update the full release notes, and make a big announcement. These releases occur one to two times a year and may correspond with the dates for CHAOSScon North America and Europe. Prior to regular release, continuous release metrics may go through iterations of comment periods and edits.

Continuous Metric Contributions Since Last Release

• Common WG
  • New metrics include:
    • Types of Contributions
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
  • New metrics include:
• Evolution WG
  • New metrics include:
    • New Contributors
• Risk WG
  • New metrics include:
• Value WG
  • New metrics include:

Release 202001 Notes:

• PDF of released CHAOSS Metrics (v.202001)
• All Metrics were restructured to conform to the new CHAOSS Project metrics document structure.
• Common WG
  • New metrics include:
    • Activity Dates and Times
    • Time to First Response
    • Contributors
  • Restructured and renamed focus areas
  • Organizational Diversity remains unchanged from previous release.
• Diversity & Inclusion WG
  • New metrics include:
    • Sponsorship
    • Board/Council Diversity
  • Improved clarity on several metrics that were in the previous release
• Evolution WG
  • New metrics include:
    • Issue Age
    • Issue Response Time
    • Issue Resolution Duration
    • New Contributors Closing Issues
  • Updated focus areas. Refactored the "Code Development" focus area into 3 separate focus areas to more closely align with other working groups. Rather than having one broad focus area with multiple subsections, we decided our intent would be better communicated by making each of these subsections into their own focus areas. The 3 separate focus areas include:
    • Code Development Activity
    • Code Development Efficiency
    • Code Development Process Quality
  • Kept the other 2 focus areas (Issue Resolution and Community Growth) the same.
  • No major changes were made to already existing metrics.
• Risk WG
  • New metrics include:
    • OSI Approved Licenses
    • Licenses Declared
    • Test Coverage (Updated)
    • Elephant Factor
    • Committers
  • Focused on increasing metrics coverage in the general areas of CNCF Core Infrastructure badging and licensing.
  • License Count was removed from the release. It is being replaced by the Licenses Declared metric.
  • Software Bill of Materials was removed from the release. It is being reworked as the SPDX Document metric for the next release.
• Value WG
  • New metrics include:
    • Social Currency Metric System (SCMS)
    • Job Opportunities
  • A new focus area of Ecosystem Value was developed

Release 201908 Notes

• PDF of released CHAOSS Metrics (v.201908)
• Initial CHAOSS Metrics release.