Something broken in the source data, if I compare the organisations with the list that GitHub has crowdsourced: https://github.com/github/government.github.com/blob/gh-page...
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the source of your data? How do you define "government activity on GitHub"? Do you look at domain used in contact, affiliation, etc.?
This GitHub page was the starting point: https://government.github.com/community
Even from this page there appears to be a fair bit missing. E.g. one of the biggest UK gov orgs is @alphagov (~1.6k repos), which I can't seem to see on your dash?
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#24Great, but most of the Norwegian governments are missing. Here is a more up to date list https://github.com/MikAoJk/norwegian-public-organizations/tr...
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#25I don’t think open issues is a very useful metric because an open issue may stick around for 10 years and just stay low priority. So number of open issues doesn’t really mean much. Maybe instead show issue velocity of how many created+closed each period to show activity. Or show commits.
they're all useless vanity metrics that cannot offer any comparison to another organization or project software that is complete also fails every vanity metric
It depends on what you’re measuring.
If you just want to see if a project is active then commits is useful.
If you want to see if there are multiple committers, then active people is useful.
I don’t think you should compare repos based on this metric, but knowing if a repo is active or not is something.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the source of your data? How do you define "government activity on GitHub"? Do you look at domain used in contact, affiliation, etc.?
This GitHub page was the starting point: https://government.github.com/community
For The Netherlands only a couple of organizations are listed there, lots are missing.
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#27As a state government employee I don’t understand what the purpose of this is. For example, my organization has hundreds of repositories but they are all hosted internally on TFS. We have zero repositories on GitHub. Is the goal to show what government code looks like, get community help for the code, accountability, showing your tax dollars at work, something else?
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#28Something broken in the source data, if I compare the organisations with the list that GitHub has crowdsourced: https://github.com/github/government.github.com/blob/gh-page...
Yep, the amount of UK gov organisations seems very small compared to this list.
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#29No explanation of where this data is coming from or how it's being labeled? Your top table on the right hand side shows seven "countries" but only one of the names in there is actually the name of a country (Norway). It looks like you're just taking the top-level headers from that "who's using Github" page? Civic Hacker is one of those and is showing up as a "country" in your dataset, but clearly isn't. Looking at th…
I can see how the "Country" name was confusing; thank you. Renamed it to "Government" for a bit more clarity.
It's a bit overarching. Central gov is different to stuff that happens in regions. In the croudsourced list for these on GitHub the UK has UK Central Government and UK Councils, things are probably different for the say the ministry of justice Vs some small town.
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#30I created a dashboard to monitor government activity on GitHub
What's the aim ?