Analyzing KDE Project Health with Git
16 hours ago
- #Git
- #Project Analysis
- #Open Source
- Introduces Git commands to assess project health, including what changes frequently, what breaks often, recent emergencies, project momentum, and key maintainers.
- Provides shell aliases and functions for running these Git analyses, such as 'what-changes', 'what-breaks', 'emergencies', 'momentum', and 'maintainers-recently'.
- Demonstrates applying these tools to KDE's plasma-workspace project, showing top changed files (e.g., CMakeLists.txt, shellcorona.cpp), frequent breakages, and emergency reverts/hotfixes.
- Highlights project momentum over five years with monthly commit counts and lists recent and all-time contributors, noting a healthy diversity of contributors.
- Includes user feedback questioning commit counts as a measure of productivity, citing a controversial KWin change removed despite user reliance and negative feedback.