What's your idea?
Refresh the data on CertifiedToRock.com so that recent contributors are better represented.
What are the benefits?
CTR could be a valid source for considering Drupal developers but due to the data being outdated it can not be used as a reliable source. With updated data current developers will be better represented and it could encourage new developers to contribute.
What are the risks?
A single refresh will not be useful. If the data goes stale again it will hurt new developers more than it will help.
How can we measure the impact of this idea? (metrics)
Number of developers referencing their CTR score on their D.O profile.
Who directly benefits from / will use this improvement? (target audiences)
Contributors to Drupal will be motivated to continue contributing and it can help current contributers find gainful employment.
Are additional resources available for discovery/implementation? (volunteer effort, financial backing, etc.)
None yet.
Comments
Not eligible
CTR is not under control of the Drupal.org Software Working Group so would be ineligible as a proposal. Last published maintainers of the site are at http://certifiedtorock.com/blog/certified-to-rock-groupies.
With the recent acquisition
http://growingventuresolutions.com/blog/gvs-drupal-scout-acquired-indust...
Absolutely no visible activity for years. There could be room to bring this under control of the Drupal.org Software Working Group.
I actually find it slightly
I actually find it slightly irresponsible that they've left CTR online for the past few years without updating it. I've seen people asking for a user's CTR score to be submitted when replying to job offerings. But they have not updated the site in over a year and a half, so anyone who may have dropped out of the community in the meantime still shows up as high, and any work people have done in the meantime is not counted.
Disclaimer
Could someone who's in touch with Acquia get them to at least post a disclaimer on that site stating that the data is old?
That would be a fantastic short-term solution.
As per the comment above,
As per the comment above, Acquia has no control over the CTR site ... nor, for that matter, does the Drupal Association.
But someone at Acquia could
But someone at Acquia could take one minute to talk to someone who is taking the lead in GVS projects to see if they could find out maybe? Bottom line the person that is (not) looking after the ctr project is unresponsive.
I think the issue here is
I think the issue here is those who used to maintain it have other priorities and there hasn't been any demand from the community for it/to update it.
If you are interested in seeing it updated, perhaps consider contacting the original authors and offering to assist?
If someone wants to follow
If someone wants to follow this up with the "current groupies", they
arewere:coltrane - https://drupal.org/user/91990
greggles - https://drupal.org/user/36762
c4rl - https://drupal.org/user/235047
lisarex - https://drupal.org/user/485222
ezra-g - https://drupal.org/user/69959
Please be diplomatic with any emails :)
I had time back in 2011, but sadly not anymore.
I wonder if the site runs via a spider based process that pulls out the data, which would probably explain the overheads and inability to easily update. So a collaboration with d.o. which allows that sites maintainers access to a raw db dump would probably make data mining much easier.
Although, currently between 2600000 and 2700000 users on drupal.org, which would be a months worth of processing if each user took 1 minute to process...
CertifiedToRock is dead, long live CTR
http://certifiedtorock.com/node/82792
greggles++
greggles++
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Now the site is not anymore reachable.
Yep, I took it offline this
Yep, I took it offline this spring. The new purchaser had not taken it over.
For what it's worth, there's a static archive of it at http://ctr.knaddison.com/ for now. Though obviously it doesn't have any of the user's data.
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