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

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

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) ;-)