[yocto-ab] YP Advisory Board: raw metrics

[Nicolas Dechesne]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 12:00 PM, Philip Balister <philip at balister.org>
wrote:

> On 10/24/2017 09:36 AM, Nicolas Dechesne wrote:
> > hi Jeff,
> >
> > thanks for showing this and sharing the link.
> >
> > If we take a look at the top repo, we see
> >
> > [image: Inline image 1]
> >
> > Commits are counted once (of course), and since several of these trees
> are
> > 'combined' together, most commits end up (wrongly?) in poky-contrib. We
> > probably want to show that in a different way. I can guess that the trees
> > are processed in a specific 'order' and that each commit is attributed
> to a
> > repo when it is first met. So that means that the ordered list we provide
> > is important, and we need to decide how we want to look at the data.
> >
> > There are 2 possible orders (for the main repo):
> > 1. poky
> > 2. bitbake
> > 3. oe-core
> > 4. meta-yocto
> > 5. *-contrib
> >
> > or
> >
> > 1. oe-core
> > 2. bitbake
> > 3. meta-yocto
> > 4. poky
> > 5. *-contrib
> >
> > Both options should give different views. Based on the structure of our
> > development process, I suppose that the 2nd one makes more sense.
> >
> > Some additional questions:
> >
> > * Can we choose which branches in repo are processed? At the very least
> > -next branches should not be taken into account.
> > * Should we try to track only 'release' branches as much as possible
> > * Isn't poky-buildhistory irrelevant here? I think we should remove it
>
> poky is built from several layers that are already include, so no need
> to include it. I agree with Nicolas.
>
> > * Should we keep the -contrib trees?
> > * can you share the whole list of repo that are being used?
> >
>
> Layers should now include information about what layers they depend on.
> By counting the number of times a layer is used by other layers gives us
> a "popularity" figure of merit. We should look at metrics for popular
> layers. (I suspect we can figure this out by inspection also)
>
> We should also look at including member bsp layers hosts on
> git.yoctoproject.org.
>

they are already. I only copy/paste the top repos, from the website you can
download the 'top 50' repos, see full list in the attached file. The Web UI
says there are 86 repos tracked.


>
> Philip
>
>
>
> > cheers
> > nico
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 24, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Jeff Osier-Mixon <jefro at jefro.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> These are the metrics links we discussed yesterday. Think of these as
> >> building blocks to provide data. Now we need to figure out good
> questions
> >> to ask to determine how to measure the health of the community. This
> will
> >> be an ongoing effort over the next quarter.
> >>
> >> Bitergia is a company that LF has contracted with to provide metrics for
> >> all of their collaborative projects. Intel paid for additional data sets
> >> and support on behalf of the Yocto Project. Through these tools we have
> >> visualized data for the git repos, mailing lists, and bugzilla instance.
> >> These visualizations are highly configurable, and the whole setup is
> built
> >> with open source software.
> >>
> >> https://yoctoproject.biterg.io
> >>
> >> OpenHub is a BlackDuck project that provides a medium-depth dive into
> the
> >> git server.
> >>
> >> https://www.openhub.net/p/YoctoProject
> >>
> >> Now that we have these tools, I look forward to working with those
> >> interested on customizing the data set definitions so we know exactly
> what
> >> we are looking at.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeff Osier-Mixon - Open Source Community Manager, Intel Corporation
> >>
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> >
> >
> >
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