[metrics] gitlab raw data

[vchrombie]

Opening this issue to discuss the possible metrics which can be extracted from the gitlab raw data for gitlabqm enricher.

[vchrombie]

List of metrics which were proposed in the earlier meeting by @valeriocos

• number of issues per day
• number of comments per day
• number of merges per day

[vchrombie]

Hi @valeriocos

I was thinking of what all metrics can be defined from gitlab data.

number of issues per day

Can we make this metric into two with much more clear meaning like

• number of issues opened per day
• number of issues closed per day

We can use them in the QMs too.

WDYT?
@Polaris000 @inishchith @dlumbrer

[valeriocos]

+1, thanks

[Polaris000]

Sounds good!

[inishchith]

Sounds good @vchrombie

[dlumbrer]

+1 here as well :-) @vchrombie

[vchrombie]

I have implemented the issue related metrics.

• number of issues opened per day

• number of issues closed per day

I think we can do the same thing for merge requests too

number of merges per day

• number of mrs opened in a day
• number of mrs merged in a day
• number of mrs closed in a day

[vchrombie]

number of comments per day

I left this at that time, but I'll complete it by the next PR.

[vchrombie]

number of comments per day

do you think we need to consider the comments as two different entities like issue_comments and merge_comments?

I was thinking it would be better if we can keep them separate as we can specifically use numberIssueComments and numberMergeComments as metrics in the quality models if needed.

[valeriocos]

Yes, good idea! let's keep them separated for the moment.

[vchrombie]

I was thinking it would be better if we can keep them separate as we can specifically use numberIssueComments and numberMergeComments as metrics in the quality models if needed.

I have completed working on this. I will add them to the PR.

Also, I was going through the existing quality models, I saw one different metric in the Developer QM. It is the "number of issues attended". I think this has a different meaning than the number of comments. The numberIssueComments means the total number of comments across all issues on a particular day whereas the numberIssuesAttended would become the number of issues that have at least one comment on a particular date. This should be easy to implement.

Do you have any comments on this?

[valeriocos]

the numberIssuesAttended would become the number of issues that have at least one comment on a particular date. This should be easy to implement.

It should be the number of issues that have at least one comment, which is not written by the issue reporter, wdyt?

[vchrombie]

It should be the number of issues that have at least one comment, which is not written by the issue reporter, wdyt?

ah yes, that makes the definition more clear
thanks @valeriocos

[valeriocos]

you're welcome @vchrombie

[vchrombie]

planned metrics are implemented, so closing this issue
feel free to open if you have any more metric suggestions in the future