Ask HN: How many repositories per engineer do you have?

Posted by ed_balls on Friday July 21, 2023 @08:49AM
from the ask-hn dept.

In my organisation we have about 20 repositories in Github per engineer. In previous places it was 0.2 or 1:1. What is the ratio at your organization?

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Re:Ask HN: How many repositories per engineer do you have? by donohoe on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:29AM (#36813522)

At work our (small org) has 10 repositories, so thats 3:1

That said, I see that many of these are archived projects or not in use. We only have 4 active repos really, so: 4:3

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Re:Ask HN: How many repositories per engineer do you have? by HelloNurse on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:45AM (#36813672)

Why do you think it is a useful metric, compared to repositories per project or number of active users of a certain repository?

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Re:Ask HN: How many repositories per engineer do you have? by dgnemo on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:25AM (#36814156)

Out of curiosity, has your org ever evaluated a monorepo approach?

Would be interesting to know what issues you faced considering monorepo and what pushed to have multiple repos.

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Re:Ask HN: How many repositories per engineer do you have? by ed_balls on Friday July 21, 2023 @11:21AM (#36814843)

I think it was just natural approach while using Github

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