mhahnel/Total-Impact — pull request #42 by jameshowison (2011-10-14 17:52:43+00:00)
Title: FLOSSmole plugin: Initial setup and commented intentions

Using a pull-request to notify, nothing here works yet, so not expecting this pull request to be accepted. If you'd prefer I use issues to get discussion of my fork/branch, let me know.

I'm working to understand the total-impact plugin system, towards adding metrics
about software contributions. Clearly downloads, releases and activity percentiles
are problematic metrics, but with the right limitations (see
publications on Open Source Success measures at
http://james.howison.name) might be useful.

FLOSSmole has a straight mysql access method, so my thinking is that
the Plugin.py in this folder calls out over the network to our MySQL
directly (it's hosted at SDSC so should be robust) and creates the relevant json structure for the total-impact
API. Hopefully MySQL access from your server is not problematic.

Currently all I'm doing in this commit is indicating where I think
things go in the Plugin, I'd love to feedback on that.