On Thu, 2 Oct 2025 at 15:30, Rich Bowen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi, folks,
>
> For the last couple of months I’ve been producing these - 
> https://boxofclue.com/apache-highlights/
>
> The process is that I have a checkout of every repo under 
> https://github.com/apache (just metadata, not actual files. 2.9Gb total) and 
> I grind through them to generate some metrics like:
>
> First time commit (ie, had a commit in a merged PR the first time)
> 10th/100th/1000th/etc commit
>
> There are some false positives, which I think come from, for example, X makes 
> a first-time commit to iceberg-fortran but they’ve contributed to 
> iceberg-rust before. But for the most part, it gives a really great weekly 
> snapshot of who the new people in your project are. I’ve gotten a couple 
> positive comments from a handful of projects that are using this data to 
> welcome new contributors, which was the intent of the thing. (I post it to 
> Mastodon every week.)
>
> I’d like to run this on our VM, rather than running it on my laptop every 
> Monday morning. I’d also like to link to the reports from a couple of places 
> on our website (and don’t really want to link to boxofclue.com 
> <http://boxofclue.com/> from there!) But I wanted to run it by you folks 
> first, before taking the liberty to do that. Does anybody have any objections 
> to me doing this?

Which VM did you have in mind?

> —
> Rich Bowen
> [email protected]
>
>
>
>

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