Insights into the growth and maintenance of our Patterns collection

Our InnerSource Patterns are maintained by a working group within the InnerSource Commons, often called Patterns WG for short. That Patterns WG is creating a report about anything that has happened related to our patterns once a quarter, to give the Board of the InnerSource Commons visibility into what is going on. These reports have also prove valuable for the Patterns WG itself as it motivates us to pause and look back over the last couple of months every once in a while :)

As an example, see the 2023-05 report.

In these reports we also include some measurable things like

• how many new patterns were proposed (or published in our book)
• how many patterns were improved? (like where did we discover further organizations that are using this pattern)
• etc

However as some of these measures were hard to collect, we did not do this consistently in our reports.

Now I read about the Issue Metrics GitHub Action, and was wondering if we could use that to generate some of the metrics from our reports automatically? See also this related blog post about data-driven insights by GitHub.

Beginne mit meta/boardreports/2023-05.md und der verlinkten Dokumentation zur Issue Metrics GitHub Action. Ermittle, welche vierteljährlichen Kennzahlen zuverlässig generiert werden können und wie sie in die Board-Berichte einfließen sollten. Als abgeschlossen gilt die Arbeit, wenn die Patterns WG eine abgestimmte, wiederholbare Methode zur Erstellung der ausgewählten Kennzahlen hat.