WordPress report goal audit

This page maps the current WordPress Community & Adoption Health report back to the active goal.md file. It is a quick proof map: what is covered directly, what is covered with public proxies or snapshots, and where the refresh metadata lives.

Report sections

3 main views

Participation, Project Load, and Market Position.

Decision answers

7 goal questions

Covered in the main report and the decision brief.

SQLite evidence

108 tables

Includes 20 hashed source files and fetched public-source tables.

Partial signals

5 labeled gaps

Stored in SQLite and shown in the source coverage pages.

Requirement Coverage

HTML progress summary

Summarize what has been done so far.

Covered

progress_summary.html summarizes the work and links the current report, companion views, source inventory, and refresh docs.

Visual decision report

Explain community involvement, project workload, and market position.

Covered

index.html contains the three main views, a relevance scorecard, a Goal Coverage Map, Source Coverage, and a final Decision Readout.

Separate evidence lanes

Do not treat tickets as the whole community.

Covered

The report separates ticket-derived signals, ecosystem signals, and adoption/demand signals at the top of the page.

Ticket participation and load

New, closed, net flow, reporters, first-time, repeat, newcomer return cohorts, maintainer split, response, close time, reopen, stale share, concentration, drive-by vs sustained.

Covered

65.0k Core tickets, 32.1k Gutenberg issues, and 12.1k wordpress-develop PRs are loaded. The report uses quarterly Core, Gutenberg, PR, timeline, response, reopen, concentration, and depth tables.

Bug and feature mix

Show bugs, feature requests, and all tickets/issues separately where useful.

Covered

The classification trend contains 716 quarterly category rows, with separate Core and Gutenberg category charts plus open-backlog category summaries.

Community outside tickets

Props, committers, Make/Core, WordCamps, Meetups, plugins, themes, translations, Five for the Future, support, dev notes.

Covered

The report includes release credits, committers, Make/Core posts/comments/dev notes, WordCamp records, Events/Meetups, Translate snapshots, Five for the Future, support answer summaries, archived support-view estimates, plugin/theme directory activity, plugin and theme search breadth, Composer package snapshots, and a stale popular-plugin sample.

Popularity and likelihood to choose WordPress

Installed share, CMS share, newly detected sites, traffic tiers, peer builders, demand signals, plugins, WooCommerce, enterprise.

Mixed

Installed-share and CMS-share evidence is direct. Newly detected sites, search interest, and broad job demand are presented with public proxies, including compact new-site choice, query-intent, search-interest, and attention/demand summaries, and clearly labeled as partial.

Quarterly preference

Prefer quarterly time series where the data supports it.

Covered

Core, Gutenberg, PR, classification, Make/Core, dev-note, archived support-view estimates, support snapshot buckets, Stack Overflow, Wikimedia, HN hiring, quarterly WordPress Jobs board snapshots, plugin downloads, and many market/demand charts use quarterly or monthly-to-quarterly series where available.

Refreshable source metadata

Enough metadata to refresh without rediscovering the model.

Covered

data_inventory.html lists table counts, local source hashes, and partial-source gaps. source_gap_plan.html turns those gaps into a collection order. refresh_runbook.html records the refresh path.

Short visual decision readout

End with community health, project load, and market position.

Covered

The main report ends with a Decision Readout, and decision_brief.html provides a shareable one-page version with seven visual answer cards.

Partial Signals Stored In SQLite

These are the remaining source areas where the report already has a labeled proxy or snapshot, but the ideal historical source would make the decision view stronger.

partial Developer interest

Stack Overflow, Wikimedia, npm downloads, Packagist Composer package snapshots, GitHub PRs, GitHub review comments, repository-interest snapshots, and GitHub topic-search breadth are in.

Best next source

Add one broader developer-community source if a stable public source is available.

partial Hiring demand

HN hiring threads, Remote OK and Remotive current jobs, and annual plus quarterly WordPress Jobs board snapshots are in.

Best next source

Add a broad hiring-platform export.

partial New-site history

BuiltWith current pipeline and HTTP Archive proxies are in.

Best next source

Add a true first-seen site cohort.

partial Search interest

Wikimedia, Stack Overflow, and current autocomplete query-intent proxies are in.

Best next source

Add Google Trends or a similar search-provider export.

partial Support history

Current support queues plus quarterly Wayback support-view estimates are in.

Best next source

Add full topic and reply history if a stable export is available.

Useful Entry Points

Use the full report for charts, the decision brief for sharing, project load for workload decisions, market position for adoption decisions, contributor depth for participation shape, ecosystem activity for non-ticket community channels, the data inventory when checking source coverage, and the source gap plan when choosing the next import.