[Research] CHAOSS "Working Groups" section for Community Handbook

[jaskiratsingh2000]

[Research] CHAOSS "Working Groups" section for Community Handbook

[jaskiratsingh2000]

I tried understanding the backgrounds of each working group alongside ith their focused areas. While going through the research I came across these questions for which I pledged the community to hear some hints/clue in that regards:

• How to define any new focus area of metrics inside any working group?
• What is the workflow and culture inside the working groups?
• What criteria do the Working groups follow for refining or accepting any metric under the relevant group?

[jaskiratsingh2000]

After discussing this thing n the mailing list and the CHAOSS community weekly call, I received these inputs:

Here are some unorganized thoughts in response to your questions:

New focus areas are created when working group members find that a metric idea does not fit within existing focus areas.

The workflow is:

• issues for keeping track of metrics we are working on with links to google docs
• google docs for collaborating on a metrics
• markdown files in working group for more permanent place for metric
• pull-request workflow for changes
• we have a review period for all new and changed metrics (see release process)
• working groups work through calls and asynchronously through documents

Criteria for metrics:

• they need to be sufficiently defined
• we have a template we follow

[jaskiratsingh2000]

After some discussions, I was able to highlight the key points that I was supposed to write.

• What is the Working Group?
• Types of CHAOSS Working Groups
• Who all can participate?
• How to define any new focus area of metrics inside any working group?
• What is the workflow and culture inside the working groups?