Hi Junio, On Tue, 14 Aug 2018, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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) ;-) And if you do not remember precisely, you can easily re-run `Linus` from here: https://github.com/git/git/blob/todo/Linus Ciao, Dscho
