Re: [RFC] Use cases for 'git statistics'

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2008, 13:01 UTC
Message-ID: <bd6139dc0805120601k45ab762eq78c7d6a4927059f6@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200805121440.12836.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

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>  This is, IMHO, the most complex example (at least to do properly).
>  It begins with: does given author have code touching given subsystem
>  (i.e. is it for him/her new contribution wrt. subsystem)? How many
>  commits he/she has affecting given subsystem? How often he/she rewrites
>  code? How many bugs were introduced?

Ah, there is a lot more to this example than I thought. Perhaps this data could all be shown and then, using some "importance" metric per item a "grade" can be calculated?

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>  Details I think need to be provided by maintainer...
>
>
>  > >  * Contributor: what happened with my code?
>  >
>  > Do you mean a "track my code" like feature? Showing the movement of a
>  > particular piece of code through the code? (Displaying information
>  > like "moved from foo.c to bar.c in commit 0123456789abcd"?)
>
>  I was thinking there about "git blame --reverse".
>
>
>  > >  * Searching where to contribute: what are oldest part of code dealing
>  > >   with error messages (find ancient code)?
>  >
>  > In other words, find the lines with the oldest modification time stamp
>  > from 'git blame'?
>
>  Or find the lines with oldest modification stamp with "die" or "warn",
>  or find which messages are oldest, even if wrapper have changed.
>
>
>  P.S. I wonder how hard to be to plug-in such SCM statistic system
>  into something like project management, see
>   "Joel On Software: Evidence based scheduling" (of programming tasks)
>   http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html
>
>  --
>  Jakub Narebski
>  Poland
>

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier