Dear all, Since yesterday the code is available on the repository. As suggested in the proposed code contributors policy, I created a new branch named si/5453. Feel free to comment our work, and send feedbacks or suggestions about possible improvements.
Stefano & Simone 2012/12/11 Simone Gatti <[email protected]> > Dear all, > > thank you for your feedback!! > First of all, in the next hours we'll create a branch with the extension of > UserStats, so that you can see our code to discuss it and its possible > improvements. After that we'll upload the extensions of the Organization > and OrganizationStats. > About the possibility to define an organization based on a shared topic of > interest, we have not considered it. We assumed that the kind of > organization could be: "for-profit business", "foundation or other > non-profit organization" or "research and/or education institution", like > the organizations in the real world. We don't know if the concept is the > same, in that case we can easily add a new type of organization. > (e.g."group of interest"). > As for Rich's proposal it's a great idea! We have considered it but we > later decided to focus on other aspects in our thesis. Anyway it's the best > way to use the additional data included in the profile. > I don't have commit access on the repository to upload my code. Since we > developed it together, Stefano will commit it. > > Regards, > > Simone. > > > 2012/12/10 Alvaro del Castillo <[email protected]> > > > 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- > > > > >
