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Gather metrics on issues/prs/discussions such as time to first response, count of issues opened, closed, etc.
https://github.blog/2023-07-19-metrics-for-issues-pull-requests-and-discussions/
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Stats about new contributors #190

Open Piedone opened 5 months ago

Piedone commented 5 months ago

During our community meeting at Orchard Core on the topic of integrating this action (https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore/issues/14585) it came up that it would be nice to have stats about new contributors as well.

I.e., in an issue like https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore/issues/15073, we'd also have a "Number of items opened by new contributors" line in the aggregated metrics table. A new contributor can be defined as somebody who GitHub indicates as a first-time contributor like this:

296902235-32f27aad-2c5a-4f0d-963b-722af1caedb2

I'm not sure how this is calculated. In any case, this would be a user who didn't yet author a contribution of that type (e.g., didn't open an issue before and thus they're a new contributor for issues) or didn't create any issues/discussions/PRs before in the project (whichever is easier to compute).

What do you think?

zkoppert commented 5 months ago

This seems like it could be accomplished. While there isn't an API endpoint to tell us if the user is contributing for the first time, I see that there are other projects like this one that accomplish this by checking to see if the issue/pr author has any other issues/prs in that repo previously. Then the "Number of items opened by new contributors" would be the sum of all the items found.

Seems like a good idea to me in order to quickly assess the overall volume of new contributor's contributions in that time period.

Piedone commented 5 months ago

Great! It seems it's doable for each contribution type separately, then.

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Piedone commented 3 months ago

Well, we at Orchard Core are still interested in this.