Update metrics page, add this years report. (#6250) (#6251)

(cherry picked from commit 58c1823)

Signed-off-by: kscottz <katherineascott@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomoya Fujita <Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com>
Co-authored-by: Katherine Scott <katherineAScott@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Tomoya Fujita <Tomoya.Fujita@sony.com>

Author: 3 people

source/The-ROS2-Project/Metrics.rst

@@ -8,25 +8,34 @@ Metrics
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-We measure aspects of the ROS community to understand and track the impact of our work and identify areas for improvement.
-We take inspiration from the MeeGo Project's metrics.
+While we do not track ROS users, we do measure various aspects of the ROS community to understand and track the impact of our work and identify areas for improvement.
 
-Metrics.ros.org
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-At `metrics.ros.org <https://metrics.ros.org>`_ you can find many visualizations of metrics about ROS.
+Live Project Metrics
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+- `metrics.ros.org <https://metrics.ros.org>`_ is a website that hosts relatively up to day visualizations of metrics about the ROS community.
+- `The Linux Foundation's LFX dashboard on ROS <https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/ros?>`_ contains an up-to-date contributor, development, popularity, and project health metrics.
+- `Our OSU OSL AWStats dashboard <https://awstats.osuosl.org/reports/packages.ros.org/2026/01/awstats.packages.ros.org.html>`_ provides real time data on ROS package downloads.
+
+*Note that you will need to specify the current month and year in the AWStats URL to get the latest information.*
+
+- Github mains a complete list of packages and projects tagged with `#ROS <https://github.com/topics/ros>`_ and `#ROS2 <https://github.com/topics/ros2>`_.
+- An up to date list of citations for the original `ROS paper <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=1227661396257612398&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en>`_ (`Quigley et al., 2009 <http://lars.mec.ua.pt/public/LAR%20Projects/BinPicking/2016_RodrigoSalgueiro/LIB/ROS/icraoss09-ROS.pdf>`_), and the canonical `ROS 2 paper <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=1227661396257612398&as_sdt=5>`_ (`Macenski et al., 2022 <https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/scirobotics.abm6074>`_) are both available on Google Scholar.
 
 Periodic Metrics Report
 -----------------------
 
 We periodically publish a metrics report that provides a quantitative view of the ROS community.
-We're collectively learning what to measure and how and evoloving as systems change.
+We're collectively learning what to measure and how and evolving as systems change.
 Please provide feedback!
 Add your suggestions on how to improve these reports by posting them to `ROS Discourse Site Feedback Category <http://discourse.ros.org/c/site-feedback>`_.
 
 Historical Metrics Reports
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+* `2025 <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/2025-ros-metrics-report/52575>`_
+* `2024 <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/2024-ros-metrics-report/42354>`_
 * `2023 <http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2024-01.pdf>`_
 * `2022 <http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2022-07.pdf>`_
 * `2021 <http://download.ros.org/downloads/metrics/metrics-report-2021-07.pdf>`_