Feature: feedback - Default view for Stars and Forks graph should be time-series

[jpmcb]

Suggested solution

We've gotten feedback that the default view for the stars and forks graph should be the time-series. Right now, when you go to a repo page, you'll see the histograms view:

This is valuable data. But it seems that people generally want to see "number go up" vs. trend / bucket data over a histogram. Here's that same repo page but with the time-series which shows a steady growth:

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We'll want to decide if this is what we want to do or if we want to distinguish our platform with being opinionated for the histograms.

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[nickytonline]

Whoever takes this on, add some E2E tests for this as well. Happy to assist on E2E testing if needed.

[SURAJ-SHARMA27]

Hi @jpmcb @nickytonline ,

I was working on the issue and resolved it locally, but before making a PR, I have a few suggestions. I created a line chart for the time series (see image 1), but I believe an area chart might be more suitable for this visualization (see image 2). What are your thoughts?

Additionally, I researched similar implementations on various sites. For example, GitHub has a Stargazers page where they display information about stargazers (see image 3). Could we consider implementing something similar with webhooks for each repository?

[jpmcb]

I do like the highlighted area under the time series - cc @isabensusan for final design signoff: if we made this change, we'd need to make it uniform across all time series charts (at least on the repo page: the stars and forks)

Go ahead and open a PR on this and we can play with it in a design preview.

Could we consider implementing something similar with webhooks for each repository?

Good suggestion! At this time, we're not interested in displaying who's starred a repository.