Collect Feedback to Determine What Enhancements to Work On

[jrtechs]

Currently this project is just scratching the surface of what we can do with the data from the github API. Moving this project forward, I want to see what other cool visualizations we can make to help open source communities. If anyone has ideas or suggestions feel free to drop them in this issue.

[jrtechs]

I'm currently thinking about adding something along the lines of my open-source year in review. I am really inspired this year by these websites:

• https://rewind.youtube/
• https://spotify.me/en
• https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/

To start we could start focusing on generating graphs/collecting metrics/data. Later on, I want to go crazy and make the website look really slick. Here are my current ideas:

• number of commits throughout the year -- similar to the profile heatmap but a histogram
• contributions to repositories throughout the year. Similar to this graph in youtube rewind:
  
• Show new organizations you joined and people you started following in a timeline graph or something.
• Use some metrics to determine your most contributed to the project in year x
• Use some metric to determine the repository you contributed to that had the most community impact.

[jrtechs]

Repository based metrics would be interesting. Just found this repository which used python to generate issues opened/closed chart:
https://github.com/keszybz/github-state

This is something that can probably easily be implemented in this project.

[jwflory]

Repository based metrics would be interesting. Just found this repository which used python to generate issues opened/closed chart:

To take it one step further, it would be cool to get insightful metrics such as average response time to issues opened by non-committers, the average lifespan of issues and pull requests (i.e. how many days/hours before an issue/PR is opened to closed)… if you want to do a 30 minute brainstorm chat over the winter break sometime, let me know. 🙂

An example of a Grimoire graph for such a thing:

[jrtechs]

@jwflory that would be great! Right now I'm trying to brainstorm/prioritize a list of 10ish things we can work on during the Spring semester. Working on multiple things/metrics would be a good way to scale this project for multiple contributors.