Re: [Mtgvenue] Exploration of a "posting" metric - draft-elkins-mtgvenue-participation-metrics

"Fred Baker (fred)" <fred@cisco.com> Wed, 20 July 2016 18:08 UTC

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Thread-Topic: [Mtgvenue] Exploration of a "posting" metric - draft-elkins-mtgvenue-participation-metrics
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Subject: Re: [Mtgvenue] Exploration of a "posting" metric - draft-elkins-mtgvenue-participation-metrics
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> On Jul 20, 2016, at 11:48 AM, Dave Crocker <dhc@dcrocker.net> wrote:
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> "Contribution" needs to be measured meaningfully, as well as objectively, even if the measurement is coarse and doesn't count everyone.
> 
> This is why I've suggested reaching no deeper than the Acknowledgements and Contributors sections of I-D's and RFCs (as well as author lists, of course.)  If a name shows up there, the person made it through a basic filter for having been seen to actually contribute.

I'm thinking through the mechanisms by which one might extract the acknowledgements, contributors, and authors sections of an internet draft or RFC, and extract from it human names. If you have some good heuristics, I'd be interested. I don't think "hire an intern" is a long term solution.