Dear Simone, First of all, I am sorry about the delayed response.
El jue, 29-11-2012 a las 19:06 +0100, Simone Gatti escribió: > Dear all, > > During the last weeks, while discussing our work on including new details > in users' profiles on the forge, I and Stefano Invernizzi also continued > working on the other features we introduced in one of our first messages on > the mailing list, back in July. > Now we have completed the implementation of these tools, and we would like > to get feedbacks from you in order to check if it's possible to include > them on the Allura platform. > > The additional features we implemented consist of two main parts. First of > all, we included the concept of organization, namely companies, foundations > or other non-profit organizations and research and education institutions. > Each organization is now allowed to create a profile, including some > details about it, like a description, its working fields, its size, etc... > . Moreover, users can be linked to the organizations they belong to, and > projects can be linked to the organizations developing them. For both these > kinds of relationships, we implemented a two-way mechanism: the user > requests to be registered as a member of the organization and the > organization has to confirm it, or vice-versa. Similarly, an organization > sends a request to be listed as the developer of a project, and the > administrator of the project has to accept it, or vice-versa. When a user > leaves an organization, he can set this on the forge, and the enrollment in > this organization will be shown as a past membership. The same applies for > project collaborations: an organization can freely set a collaboration > within a project as completed, because the organization doesn't want to > continue working on the project, and it will be shown as a past involvement. > We believe this features could be very useful on a forge which is used by > more than one organization, because it allows to have a better awareness of > the community, knowing how users working on a project are organized in the > real life. It can also increase trust for those projects developed by > well-known organizations. > > The second feature we developed is related to users, and consits of a set > of metrics gathered from their activity. This is a really interesting thing for me! > These metrics include the number > of created or modified artifacts (also separated for different kinds of > artifacts), the number of assigned tickets, solved tickets and "revoked" > tickets, namely tickets which were assigned to a user but whose owner was > later changed. Moreover, the number of commits is collected, together with > the total number of added or modified lines of code by the user. For a > certain user, all these metrics are shown on a page on the form, as a total > value since the user's registration, as well as an average per-month value. > The metrics are also calculated considering the last 30 days only, in order > to allow to check whether the user is still active on the forge or not, and > if he is increasing his efforts on the forge or not. Is this code already available? In Bitergia our main focus is analyzing software projects using metrics and we are integrating some of our tools in Allura. We are using a different approach from you, getting the metrics from a consolidated database that gathers the data from Allura, but at the end, the metrics are really similar. We are working in different kind of visualization also, so we can share also here experiences. > Moreover, it is also possible to see these values for a single category > only, namely considering all the data regarding projects tagged as > belonging to that category. A graph showing the number of joined projects > by the user for each category is also shown, to highlight the kind of > applications the user is focused on. > Finally, the previously listed statistics are also calculated for > organizations, by considering the activity of the users enrolled in the > organization itself. Particularly, since each user can possibly work for > more than one organization on the forge, as well as working as an > individual programmer, organizations' statistics are calculated considering > only those activities performed by its members on projects to which the > organizatione is explicitely involved. > We think these features are useful to allow users to have a deeper > awareness of someone else's experience and interests, and this could also > help in identifying partners for a certain project. > > These features are implemented as external features and can be easily > enabled or disabled by setting boolean parameters in the .ini file. > Therefore, it is possible to enable organizations only, without including > the statistics features, or including statistics for users only, and so on. > Of course, it is not possible to enable organization statistics without > enabling the concept of organization on the forge. > > We would like to know what you think about these features, and we would > like to know how we can provide you our code to get a feedback from you > and, eventually, to discuss improvements and changes on it. I think it is a really good use case por the code contributors policy proposed in the mailing list. > Stefano is now > allowed to write on the repositoy, but since I am not allowed to do so, and > since these features should obviously be discussed before being included on > the project, I don't know if working there, even on a new branch, is the > best solution. I think so. Create a new experimental branch and upload the code to Allura so for others developers like me, it is easy to start playing with it. Cheers > Also, let us know if you prefer to check the two features > separately or not. Probably, it would be easier to do it incrementally, > considering one of them at a time. > > Regards, > > Simone Gatti and Stefano Invernizzi -- |\_____/| Alvaro del Castillo [o] [o] [email protected] - CTO, Software Engineer | V | http://www.bitergia.com | | -ooo-ooo- |\_____/| Alvaro del Castillo [o] [o] [email protected] - CTO, Software Engineer | V | http://www.bitergia.com | | -ooo-ooo-
