Merge pull request #26 from InnerSourceCommons/rrrutledge-patch-1

Author: jeffabailey

measuring/goals/find-projects.md

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+# **Goal:** Find InnerSource Projects
+
+We want it to be easy for people to find InnerSource projects to use.
+
+## Related Questions
+
+| **Question** | **How it relates to the goal** | **Gotchas** |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| [Who uses the InnerSource project?](../questions/who-uses.md) | Projects that are used widely are probably useful and good for others to discover. | The inverse is not necessarily true - a project with low usage isn't necessarily bad - it also might be just what I am looking for. |
+| [Who contributes to the InnerSource project?](../questions/who-contributes.md) | Projects that have many contributors are probably useful and good for others to discover. | The inverse is not necessarily true - a project with few contributors could still be useful. |
+

measuring/metrics/code-contributions.md

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+# **Metric:** Code contributions
+
+**Synopsis**: Count of commits that do not come from the project owner.
+Gain additional insight by gathering metadata on these commits such as committer identity, committer business unit, or or commit timestamp.
+
+**Unit of Measurement**: Ordinal number 
+
+**Interpretation**: Higher contribution count is generally better.
+Higher diversity of contribution across people, business units or timeframe is generally better
+
+**Measuring**
+
+Look in your source control system to see who is committing to the project.
+Check to see who are the project owners.
+Count all commits from those who are not project owners.

measuring/questions/who-contributes.md

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+# **Question:** Who contributes to the InnerSource project?
+
+There are many types of contributions - e.g. code, documentation, discussion, etc.
+
+## Related Metrics
+
+| **Metric** | **How it answers the question** | **Gotchas** |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| [Code Contributions](../metrics/code-contributions.md) | Each code contribution represents a contributor to the InnerSource project. | There are other types of contributions beyond code. |