What is important to evaluate health?

[roberthopman]

Things that are close to the organisation's wellbeing are:

• weekly total contributors
• weekly total merged pr's across all languages
• average count of contributors per language

No idea if one of these is doable for hacktoberfest.

Please advise

[iHiD]

All would be interesting and helpful to see! Probably prioritised in the order listed from top to bottom.

[serixscorpio]

Just like to mention using https://gititback.netguru.co/dashboard/exercism (a free dashboard that tracks public contributions, requires logging into github) may serve as a non-code stop-gap solution while this repo is being build out. It offers some basic stats, drill down by repo or contributors. See screenshot:

[iHiD]

@serixscorpio Thanks for this. The problem is that the data seems to be very wrong. For example, I don't think @petertseng has made 1458 contributions to Exercism in the last 7 days.

[petertseng]

amazing

[petertseng]

I meant "amazing" in the "that's hilarious" sense. I also find it unlikely that I've made 1458 contributions. Historically I think GitHub counts each force-push as one contribution per commit in the force-push, which I have always thought is strange because the previous commits should then be subtracted from my total. But actually, even taking that into account, I would have a hard time telling you where all those numbers came from.

[serixscorpio]

Thanks for your feedback. You're right, the numbers looks quite wrong, don't know why (unfortunately that dashboard isn't open source).

Another prototype/exploratory approach to answer a narrow slice of

weekly total merged pr's across all languages

would be using github GraphQL explorer. For example, to count number of merged pr's between 2018-11-13 and 2018-11-20 for repo exercism/javascript:

{
  search(first: 100, query: "repo:exercism/javascript merged:2018-11-13..2018-11-20 type:pr is:merged", type: ISSUE) {
    issueCount
    nodes {
      __typename
      ... on PullRequest {
        title
        mergedAt
      }
    }
  }
}

result:

{
  "data": {
    "search": {
      "issueCount": 8,
      "nodes": [
        {
          "__typename": "PullRequest",
          "title": "Fix ESLint errors in Flatten Array test script",
          "mergedAt": "2018-11-19T06:31:15Z"
        },
        ...
        {
          "__typename": "PullRequest",
          "title": "Update example and tests for simple-linked-list",
          "mergedAt": "2018-11-13T11:19:46Z"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}