[openstack-dev] [stackalytics] [deb] [packaging] OpenStack contribution stats skewed by deb-* projects
Ilya Shakhat
ishakhat at mirantis.com
Wed Sep 21 13:24:22 UTC 2016
2016-09-21 14:37 GMT+03:00 Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org>:
> Ilya Shakhat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > tldr; Commits stats are significantly skewed by deb-* projects
> > (http://stackalytics.com/?metric=commits&module=packaging-deb-group)
> >
> > By default Stackalytics processes commits from project's master branch.
> > For some "old core" projects there is configuration to process stable
> > branches as well. If some commit is cherry-picked from master to stable
> > it is counted twice in both branches / releases. The configuration for
> > stable branch is simple - branch starting with branching point (e.g.
> > stable/newton that starts with rc1)
> >
> > In deb-* projects master branch corresponds to upstream Debian
> > community. All OpenStack-related contribution goes into debian/<release>
> > branch. But unlike in the rest of OpenStack, git workflow differs and
> > the branch contains merge commits from master. This makes filtering
> > "pure" branch commits from those that came from master quite tricky (not
> > possible to specify the branch-point). And support of this will require
> > changes in Stackalytics code.
> >
> > Since currently we are at the time when people may get nervous about
> > numbers, I'd suggest to temporary hide all commits from deb-* projects
> > and revise stats processing in a month.
>
> Sounds good. Are you working on it ?
Yep. I'm working on this, will update on the results.
--Ilya Shakhat
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