Re: Measuring Community Involvement (was Re: Contributor Summit planning)

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi Junio,

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 01:43:38PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> >
> >> On 8/13/2018 5:54 PM, Jeff King wrote:
> >> > So I try not to think too hard on metrics, and just use them to get a
> >> > rough view on who is active.
> >> 
> >> I've been very interested in measuring community involvement, with the
> >> knowledge that any metric is flawed and we should not ever say "this metric
> >> is how we measure the quality of a contributor". It can be helpful, though,
> >> to track some metrics and their change over time.
> >> 
> >> Here are a few measurements we can make:
> >
> > Thanks, it was nice to see a more comprehensive list in one spot.
> >
> > It would be neat to have a tool that presents all of these
> > automatically, but I think the email ones are pretty tricky (most people
> > don't have the whole list archive sitting around).
> 
> I do not think it covered e-mail at all, but there was git stats
> project several years ago (perhaps part of GSoC IIRC).
> 
> > I think I mentioned "surviving lines" elsewhere, which I do like this
> > (and almost certainly stole from Junio a long time ago):
> 
> Yeah, I recall that one as part of counting how many of 1244 lines
> Linus originally wrote still were in our codebase at around v1.6.0
> timeframe (the answer was ~220 IIRC) ;-)

And if you do not remember precisely, you can easily re-run `Linus` from
here: https://github.com/git/git/blob/todo/Linus

Ciao,
Dscho