I spent some time during the DjangoCon sprint today looking into dashboard.djangoproject.com and how it calculates metrics. I was hoping to add some new metrics that mash up data from GitHub and Trac together. While technically possible, this breaks down when you want to link out to a list of the related tickets in Trac. For example:
- A list of Accepted tickets with no open PR or an open PR that hasn't t been touched in X months - A list of Accepted tickets with no PR and no attached patch that haven't been touched in months This got me wondering: Is checking for GitHub PRs via JavaScript the Right Way to do it? What if we had a cronjob update Trac periodically with PR status from GitHub? I think it would be valuable to be able to query on PR status from within Trac, e.g., to help find in progress but stale/abandoned tickets. Cleaning up the work of someone else who's lost interest in a patch is often a good way to get into Django development. I'm sure there are some holes in this idea, so I'm putting it out there for comment. Was something like this considered before, and if so, why wasn't it pursued? If it hasn't been considered before, what are the obvious problems I might encounter? Rather than sync the data periodically, another approach might be to extend the existing trac-github <https://github.com/trac-hacks/trac-github> plugin, though that would still require sync'ing existing data up front and substantial testing to make sure all the right events (e.g., renames and closures) are caught appropriately. It's not as simple as adding a commit hash to a ticket's history, esp. if we ever wanted to change the fields that were brought over from GitHub. Tobias -- *Tobias McNulty*Chief Executive Officer tob...@caktusgroup.com www.caktusgroup.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers (Contributions to Django itself)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-developers/CAMGFDKS9LkX6wAXP_gEroQAs_0uf2Q3qLWON_thTupxmDW9XGA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
