Re: [RFC] Use cases for 'git statistics'

["Sverre Rabbelier" <alturin@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
>  One note: why not provide HTML version in addition to PDF?

HTML version is now available too: http://alturin.googlepages.com/Use_cases.html

>  This is "Finding the owner of the code" (i.e. something like
>  non-existent 'git blame --summary') with the goal of "Find who
>  needs to be contact about changing (or adding) license / relicensing".

Ah, it is a simple aggregation of 'git blame' then, you are right,
that is not the same as what I had in mind for the mentioned use case.

>  This is similar, but not exactly the same as "Find maintainer of given
>  subsystem", or "Who is responsible for this part of code".

Agreed, since those should look back in history too.

>  * Maintainer: how close should I examine provided patch?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean with this, perhaps related to
"Name: Finding parts of the content in which a lot of bugs are
introduced and fixed" (e.g., patches to bug prone areas should be
examined more closely).

>  * Contributor: who is maintainer of the code / whom should I contact
>   and send copy of a patch?

I think this -is- the "Finding a Contributor that is active in a
specific bit of content" use case this time.

>  * Bug-fixer: who is responsible about this part of code? Who might have
>   introduced the bug?

How would you define 'responsible'? "Having a lot of signed-off-by
lines in that part of the content" would seem like a candidate, but
the "activity" use case seems applicable again here.

>  * Contributor: what happened with my code?

Do you mean a "track my code" like feature? Showing the movement of a
particular piece of code through the code? (Displaying information
like "moved from foo.c to bar.c in commit 0123456789abcd"?)

>  * Searching where to contribute: what are oldest part of code dealing
>   with error messages (find ancient code)?

In other words, find the lines with the oldest modification time stamp
from 'git blame'?

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier