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Goals

  1. Investigate factors influencing conversion of first-time contributor into long-time contributors
  2. Measure the health of the project in actionable metrics
  3. Recognize contributors and committers

Factors influencing contributor conversion

Input variables

  • Effect of time-to-first-review
  • Effect of PR lifetime
  • Effect of belonging to ingroup
  • Effect of work on component
  • Effect of average repsonsiveness: Time between author action and action of a someone else

Output variables

  • first-time contributor that came back for a second commit in the next 6 month

Measure the health of the project in actionable metrics

  • Number of active contributors
  • Active contributor to committer ratio
  • Average time-to-first-review
  • Average PR lifetime
  • Distribution of above metrics over components

Recognize contributors and committers

  • top list
  • awards
  • new contributors

Additional ideas

  • How many PRs are merged without review?
  • Can trends in the number of PRs and reviews be mapped to events feature freezes and releases?