Re:“Please don't waste maintainers' time on your KPI grabbin...
by sdesol on Friday June 25, 2021 @12:54PM
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> I tend to look on commit count as a negative when reviewing open source projects.
I do agree that tracking commit counts isn't very useful but tracking commit frequency, in my opinion, is quite useful. I'm obviously biased but I use commit frequency to tell me how fast a project is moving and what is the investment.
by breaking down how frequently contributors commit on a daily basis, you can get a very good sense of investment and speed. In the case of the vscode project, Microsoft is investing a lot of resources into vscode and it is evolving at an extremely fast pace.
Software metrics in general isn't the issue, it's the lack of context around them that is the issue.
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of the tool that I'm linking to
I do agree that tracking commit counts isn't very useful but tracking commit frequency, in my opinion, is quite useful. I'm obviously biased but I use commit frequency to tell me how fast a project is moving and what is the investment.
Take the following for example:
https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?p=impa...
by breaking down how frequently contributors commit on a daily basis, you can get a very good sense of investment and speed. In the case of the vscode project, Microsoft is investing a lot of resources into vscode and it is evolving at an extremely fast pace.
Software metrics in general isn't the issue, it's the lack of context around them that is the issue.
Disclaimer: I'm the creator of the tool that I'm linking to