denyeart
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7 months ago Cacti 2024 Annual Review Notes
Project Health
- Cacti health is good as reported in the annual review
- Highlights from the 'old' Insights dashboard indicate healthy PR management and issue management (good PR turnaround time, well groomed good-first-issue list)
- Please add a few important highlights from the 'new' Insights 2023 report:
- 80 contributors (+21% from 2022)
- 497 commits (-52% from 2022)
- 51% of code activities were performed by one person (from Accenture)
- 60% of code activities were performed by 1 organization (Accenture)
Maintainer Diversity
- 7 maintainers from 3 companies
- Generally healthy, although there is some risk with a single dominant maintainer
Goals
- Good progress on 2023 goals (Integrate Cactus & Weaver; Grow community)
- Good set of 2024 goals (continued integration; new DLT plugins)
- Should mention v2.0 release in the goals.
- v2.0.0-alpha was a major accomplishment in 2023.
- Is a 'final' v2.0.0 release a 2024 goal?
Lifecycle
- Graduated status still seems correct
Project Suggestions
- Try to share maintenance workload among more maintainers
- The roadmap page indicates that v2.0 is planned for mid-2023. That obviously didn't happen which is ok, but update roadmap accordingly.
- Contributing page should link to Discord instead of RocketChat
- Not Cacti specific, but we need to figure out how to best handle meeting recordings so that they can be socialized.
- Define a release management / branch management strategy:
- It looks like the last v1.x release was v1.2.0 in March 2023, but it is marked as a pre-release.
- It looks like there is not a branch associated with v1.2.x
- How are stable v1.x releases maintained while v2.0 is baking?
- How are fixes provided to v1.x users?
tkuhrt
Signed-off-by: Peter Somogyvari peter.somogyvari@accenture.com