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

From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: "Derrick Stolee" <stolee@gmail.com>, "Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>,
	"Stefan Beller" <sbeller@google.com>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Derrick Stolee" <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: Measuring Community Involvement (was Re: Contributor Summit planning)
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:55:40 +0200 (DST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1808271755160.73@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8DYYL5cNSo4ibWNmiexdWkhob1QTqFxJz56dSu8NdDViA@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi Duy,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2018, Duy Nguyen wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 7:43 PM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2. Number of other commit tag-lines (Reviewed-By, Helped-By,
> > Reported-By, etc.).
> >
> >      Using git repo:
> >
> >      $ git log --since=2018-01-01 junio/next|grep by:|grep -v
> > Signed-off-by:|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -n 20
> >
> >       66     Reviewed-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> >       22     Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> >       19     Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
> >       12     Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> >       11     Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
> >        9     Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> >        8     Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> >        7     Reported-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
> >        7     Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >        7     Acked-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
> >        6     Reviewed-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
> >        6     Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> >        5     Mentored-by: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
> >        5     Acked-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
> >        4     Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
> >        4     Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> >        4     Helped-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
> >        4     Helped-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> >        3     Reviewed-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
> >        3     Reviewed-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
> >
> >      (There does not appear to be enough density here to make a useful
> > metric.)
> 
> If your database keeps mail relationship (e.g. what mail is replied to
> what according to In-Reply-To header) then look for mail replies to
> patches. I think we have a rough picture who are active reviewers with
> that.

Not really, as there is a high percentage of "on a tangent" replies in
many, many patch threads.

Ciao,
Dscho