Contributors

Question: Who are the contributors to a project?

A contributor is defined as anyone who contributes to the project in any way. This metric ensures that all types of contributions are fully recognized in the project.

Objectives

Open source projects are comprised of a number of different contributors. Recognizing all contributors to a project is important in knowing who is helping with such activities as code development, event planning, and marketing efforts.

Visualizations

List of contributor names (often with information about their level of engagement)

Steps

1. For Metrics, set the aggregation to Count and Buckets to Terms. Set the field in buckets to author_name. Set the order to either descending or ascending depending on your preference.

   

   

   

2. You can also some more metrics to see the sum of lines removes, sum of lines added or the number of projects contributor is involved into.

3. For the number of projects involved, click on Add metrics. Set the aggregation to Unique Count and field to project.

   

   

4. For the sum of lines added, click on Add metrics. Set the aggregation to Sum and field to lines_added.

   

   

5. For sum of lines removes, click on Add metrics. Set the aggregation to Sum and field to lines_removed.

   

   

Summary number of contributors

Steps

1. For metrics, set the aggregation to Unique Count and the field to author_uuid.

   

2. This metric requires no changes in the Buckets.

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New contributors

Steps

1. For metrics, set the aggregation to Min and field to grimoire_creation_date.

   

2. For Buckets, click on Split rows and set the aggregation to Terms and field to author_name. Set the order to either descending or ascending based on your preference.

   

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