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

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Jakub Narebski [off-list ref] wrote:

 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?

 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

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 Jakub Narebski
 Poland

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