Bustiness

Question: How are short timeframes of intense activity, followed by a corresponding return to a typical pattern of activity, observed in a project ?

There are a number of reasons that may prompt a sudden increase or decrease in the amount of activity within a repository. These increases and decreases appear both as a sudden change in activity against the average amount of activity. Burstiness is a way of understanding the cycle of activity in existing metrics, like issues, merge requests, mailing lists, commits, or comments. Examples of root causes for bursts in activity include:

Release cycles
Global pandemics
Hackathon activities
Mentorship programs
Conferences, meetups, and other events where tools are presented
Conventional and social media announcements and mentions
Critical bugs as raising awareness and getting people’s attention
Community design meetings or brainstorming meetings to address a particular issue
Community members show up from another community that is relying on your project (e.g., dependencies)

Visualization

Steps

For metrics set the aggregation to Unique Count and field to hash.
For Buckets, set the aggregation to Date Histogram for X-axis and field grimoire_creation_date. Set the interval to whiever you like. I’ll use monthly for this example.
Once you have the above done, click on the play button and you should see something similar to the following.