diff --git a/ospo-book/content/en/05-chapter.md b/ospo-book/content/en/05-chapter.md index 1dd17662..9bcfcd5b 100644 --- a/ospo-book/content/en/05-chapter.md +++ b/ospo-book/content/en/05-chapter.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ weight: 70 Metrics for metrics sake benefit no one. Consider these metrics: The average age of issues is 10.3 days. The total number of pull requests was 121 last month. We had 3 new companies join our community over the past 15 days. Without context, these metrics provide no insight, yet we are driven to reach for metrics to provide insight into our complex open source engagements. -There are a number of reasons why we need insights into open source projects. an organization built from open source would like to track contributions back to key projects. an organization that participates in an open source ecosystem wants to recognize potential failures and provide stabilizing resources as needed. an organization wants to do their part to ensure the longevity of open source software, in particular, the software that is meaningful to their business. And, of course, an organization needs to remain compliant with upstream license requirements and attend to security issues that can impact the ways they work. +There are a number of reasons why we need insights into open source projects. Some example reasons are: An organization built from open source would like to track contributions back to key projects. An organization that participates in an open source ecosystem wants to recognize potential failures and provide stabilizing resources as needed. An organization wants to do their part to ensure the longevity of open source software, in particular, the software that is meaningful to their business. And, of course, an organization needs to remain compliant with upstream license requirements and attend to security issues that can impact the ways they work. Knowing little to nothing about important open source projects is no longer a viable option, and open source community metrics can play an important part to gain insights into the projects we care about. In this chapter, we consider how community metrics can be placed in context and how this placement improves insight to drive better strategic decisions throughout an organization.