Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> 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) ;-)
