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Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by jeffreyjsatx » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 8:15 PM UTC

Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity
gitinsights.io

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by throwanem » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 8:56 PM UTC

What purpose does this serve?

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #2

What purpose does this serve?

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Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by westurner » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:02 PM UTC

Do Bigquery queries of github activity gharchive still work? https://www.gharchive.org/#resources https://github.com/igrigorik/gharchive.org

GH itself shcould provide a BigQuery-like query interface for API events

/? "github archive" inurl:awesome site:github.com https://www.google.com/search?q=%22github+archive%22+inurl%3...

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by marktangotango » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:06 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #2

What purpose does this serve?

Give pointy head bosses (PHBs) insight into who is the most productive. At least that's how my former VP of engineering, the one who measured developer productivety by checking git commit counts, would use it.

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by personjerry » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:13 PM UTC

Seems like a great way to get your engineers to optimize for vanity metrics

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by nescioquid » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:20 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #2

What purpose does this serve?

Probably can be divined from the sort order of the report.

I'm surprised to keep encountering two bad ideas in software which everyone has known are bad ideas for a rather long time:

a) integration by means of a shared database

b) making engineers even suspect they are being evaluated on some source-code metrics

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by nimbius » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:27 PM UTC

This is great for teams that subscribe 100% to devops but have an entrenched core of shitty managers that still expect a weekly summary of their work in email.

It serves no other purpose than to engineer around awful leadership.

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by peddamat » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 9:53 PM UTC

I tried installing the app and got a "The change you wanted was rejected." error.

Re: Show HN: GitInsights – a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity

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Post by alkonaut » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 10:20 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #2

What purpose does this serve?

If these are the stats you are looking for, then this tool provides those stats.