[Soc-coordination] Debian Teams Activity Metrics - Report IV

[Ana Guerrero]

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 12:24:18AM +0530, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This is the fourth report for the Debian Teams Activity Metrics project.
> 
> Here is what is ready till now, ready in the sense of being fully
> completed (there were lots of small changes but here is a summary):
> 
> a). List parsing (Alioth, lists.debian.org)
> b). VCS commit stats (Git, SVN).
> 
> There were changes made to the VCS code that allowed us to parse
> repositories much faster. As a statistical example, with the earlier
> approach it took us more than twelve hours for the 'debian-med'
> repository while with the new approach is takes us less than four
> hours. This is because we perform the log operations locally after
> SSHing into Alioth as compared to fetching them remotely. So we have
> realistic time frames for parsing a SVN repository that has possibly
> thousands of commits.
> 
> We will now move on to fetching upload package data from the UDD which
> (and I think) shouldn't take much time. Yes, I am aware this was
> delayed (read further) but is not a cause for concern :)
> 
> And now comes the interesting part -- DebConf! Yes! DebConf11 in Banja
> Luka was amazing not only because it was _DebConf_ but because I met
> my mentor Andreas Tille, Ana, Arthur and Sylvestre from Debian GSoC
> and lots of other people from the Debian community. It was a memorable
> experience and I am missing DebConf already!
> 
> Our talk about the project at DebConf has helped us to gain some very
> important ideas that we will be incorporating in our work; there were
> some wonderful suggestions from the community that we have noted and
> that will help our project take a better shape. You can see the slides
> [0] or the talk itself [1].
> 
> Not much code was written but we have been motivated to add more
> metrics and some new ideas that I will be implementing soon.
> 
> -- 
> Sukhbir
> 
> [0] - https://alioth.debian.org/scm/browser.php?group_id=100628
> ('liststat.tex' -- use pdflatex to convert to PDF)
> [1] - http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2011/debconf11/low/712_Measuring_Team_Performance.ogv

I am glad you had fun at DebConf! Please, could you be more verbose
about what you did and about the ideas you gathered are are planning
to implement?

Ana