How do you use the Contributors page? #40454
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The contributor role is best used for writers who are not a regular part of your team. Contributors can add new posts and edit and delete their own posts, but they can not publish them on your website, or edit or delete posts after they have been published. |
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Because you do not have publicly-viewable repositories, I have no idea whether you refer to the site that you spammed; either way, nice trick! |
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Sounds like a ChatGPT-generated answer based on the Wordpress contributor role. Can't for the life of me figure out what the motive to doing so would be, though. |
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Advertisement; although it could theoretically be the same kind of automation that farms karma on regular social networks. I suspect it backfires, in this case, because most of the clicks to the spammed links would be from spiders anyway. |
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I think this feature can be improved by hiding bots (maybe with an option) and showing humans only. EditAs @ghiculescu noticed here (make sure to upvote him, too) the contributors page says |
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How often do you use these graphs? |
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Do you explore these graphs in your own repositories, or for other repositories? |
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You can click and drag anywhere on the graph to specify a specific date range. |
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Today I learned, and I've been using this particular feature for a long time. If I've missed that feature, I think a lot of other people are unaware of it too. |
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It might be nice to have presets like 30 days, 60 days, etc. as well, to quickly measure common ranges. |
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Yeah, clicking and dragging in the graph is not a good UX. I most often want to look at the current year, and in a 10 year old repo that is quite hard to get exactly right. A "this year" preset would be amazing. |
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I agree with these answers, one addition is that I'd like certain generated (lock-)files to be ignored from the contributions stats as mentioned in #15148 |
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How often do you use these graphs?
Do you explore these graphs in your own repositories, or for other repositories?
What data are you looking to get from it?
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My opinion about the page is exactly the same. I find "Contributors" page VERY informative speaking about choosing a maintained solution for my projects. |
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This is pretty much my evaluation ( though I use it more like bi-weekly ). When evaluating other projects I:
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Would love to add metrics around code reviews. High quality code reviews are essential contributions to a healthy project. |
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I suspect these vary too wildly across teams, although big corporate might like the free promotion towards enterprise features. |
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How often do you use these graphs? Do you explore these graphs in your own repositories, or for other repositories? What data are you looking to get from it?
What actions do you expect to take using the data from this page? What could we do to make this data easier or better for you?
Anything else you think we should know? |
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You can select a subrange on the main graph and it filters the data underneath --- discoverability problem with the ux i guess |
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Yes, discovery problem. But also a bit also has the issue that if the start of your repo's history is a very large import from another source, then the millions of lines of code that introduced will always drown out anything else the graph might ever show. It would be really useful to trim this down in a way that also affects the Y axis. |
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It would be really cool to be able to see contributes broken down by week. I want to be able to see how much code was added/deleted by each member on a given week. |
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You can select a date range by a given week. |
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It would be useful to have an overview of the amount of lines per contributor that are still mostly present in the latest commit on the main branch, so that you know who (presumably) knows most about the current codebase. Especially useful for large refactors. |
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Further, in addition to filtering by "Additions", "Deletions", and "Commits", it would be nice to sort by "Additions minus Deletions" to compare contributors based on the total number of lines they've added to the project. |
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I love the idea but this would be difficult to do accurately since codebases have a lot of boilerplate generated code. Something that could work is getting the total line count by contributor for a specific directory since most projects have the non-generated code inside a single directory (e.g. src). |
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I want the feature, although it could be inefficient to implement efficiently without lots of statistics about the dependency between the kind of hierarchies that can be expected in directory structure, and the estimation of language distribution. Too bad nobody has such data! |
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Trying to gauge how active a project is and how many contributors are active
Maybe some filters:
Github is probably in a good position to detect projects that are critical to OSS "public infrastructure" and maintained by a small number of contributors in their spare time => could decide to improve visibility on such cases and help critical maintainers attract support (either through PR or financial). |
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Thank you for contributing more than only opinions. |
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I'm using it mostly on work repositories to get a sense of trends - like if we're slowing down or not in terms of work done etc as a rough indicator of how we're doing. |
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I hope have a search Contributors function in Insights |
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I'd like to see more than the top 100 contributors. I like seeing myself on the list and I'm sure I'm the 101st contributor on many of the repos I've committed too. Top contributors this year/month/week would also be good. |
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Seconded, currently using this to browse through FFmpeg's contributors and figure out how much of Fabrice Bellard's original contributions are still a part of the project, but this is currently not possible because he's presumably no longer in the top 100 contributors. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74828879/how-much-of-modern-ffmpeg-is-written-by-fabrice-bellard |
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What could we do to make this data easier or better for you?
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And especially if not; e.g., if I'm boasting to someone with screenshots from the contributions page, I want them maximally useful. |
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I stopped showing up in the contributors analytics for all repos. Can someone investigate? https://github.com/mikestaub/serverless-express/graphs/contributors |
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Before any investigation into your specific case, I suspect the problem could be some change of your |
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Yes I changed my email. How can I regenerate the data? |
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I use it simply for the activity graph, so I can see the quality of a repo's maintenance. Now I do NOT expect the graph to be as high in later years as at the start of the project, but I do expect to see activity, and especially, activity by contributors who have been contributing for a looong time, selflessly, through thick and thin. I'd expect a sort of gamma distribution shape of cumulative activity, punctuated with small bursts of activity later on when big new features or refactors are implemented, and with certain contributors staying the course. Here is something you might want to look at. As the rate of "stars accumulation" declines, do the main contributors lose interest, or do they persevere? That would be a very good sign, IMO, that they're in it for the long haul, that they have staying power and conviction, which indicates that the repo/project is going to be safe to use and contribute to. |
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Once every or every two weeks.
Mostly repositories I contributed to, but also other repositories.
Most active developers and their contributions, recent activity to determine whether the repository is still maintained.
Conctact certain developers, potentially decisions for sponsoring.
Remove certain generated (lock-)files from the contribution stats as they do not represent real work. See also #15148
No. |
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Good job 👍🏼 |
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How often do you use these graphs? What data are you looking to get from it? What could we do to make this data easier or better for you? I would love to see a score or some kind of grade about the "quality" of the package. If the development / bug fixing is regular, should get higher score. More active developer the score could be higher, etc... Good example for package quality scoring is the emberobserver.com package scoring, ex: https://emberobserver.com/addons/ember-cli-typescript |
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Monthly.
Both.
Who contributes the most as a proxy for who is leading the project, as well as who I might contact to discuss the project.
I might contact a developer using the information on the page to discuss the project.
I would love for bot account commits to be removed from contribution counts or at least the ability to disable counting them would be great.
Nope! |
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I use it rarely. But when looking for open source projects and libraries to use in my developments I sometime use it to get an idea of how many contributors are there, how often do they commit, how many are currently active and is the main contributor still very active or dormant. It does a good job at that. |
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Hi Sir, IP address: I need to execute SQL select queries from Playbook. Please help me in this. I need your help sir. Thank you. |
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Please help me for this select query playbook. Thank you. |
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How often do you use these graphs?
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I want to execute select* from tables; through ansible playbook. |
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Could be improved by adding a way to specify what files/folders to ignore when computing contributors stats (same as See the problem here: GitHub contributions page shows too many changes. The accepted answer does not solve the problem, even for the author of the answer. |
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Every now and then, call it monthly.
My own.
Team performance. Finding people who are worthy of callouts. Seeing if people are managing to ship code (particularly useful at a birds eye view for new hires).
Encouragement and/or more direct help, as appropriate.
Here is what our graph looks like:
Can you guess where we enabled squash as the only permitted merge strategy for PRs? I realise this might be beyond the scope of the feature but it would be amazing if the graph could get flattened out somehow to account for this. |
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Would be cool if you could see the number of lines that are still in the codebase, rather than just a sum of the diffs. Right now I can just re-write the same line 1000 times and it show as +1000/-1000. Might be too much to compute regularly for some repos, but can't hurt to ask? |
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Feels like the Insights area has sooo much potential for maintaining good technical and operational health on teams whilst letting them manage it autonomously. There's some data that's just difficult to get at right now and some data that third-parties are charging a lot of money to provide from Github's data.
For context, I'm an Engineering Manager. So I'm keen to keep our tech and operations healthy using this data and also use it to help people develop. Answered the questions you had below.
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