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Metrics And Tooling for Health (of open source projects)
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Code review closeness centrality #2

Open thewtex opened 5 years ago

thewtex commented 5 years ago

Given a graph where nodes are contributors and edges are code reviews, e.g.:

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compute closeness centrality

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When there are members of the project with deep expertise that share knowledge well, points in the upper right of the figure, the project is sustainable.

If there was a green circle, which corresponds to a person, in the lower right, this would indicate that the individual may be isolating specialized knowledge, i.e. high "bus factor":

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bsipocz commented 5 years ago

This sound awesome, we could and should use a tool like this.