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

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Post by maddynator » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 10:23 PM UTC

Hi Jeffreyjsatx,

I tried GitInsight and wanted to share my feedback. Recorded a 5 min feedback video.

https://www.loom.com/share/0fb4b5ec2f2744ed9f1239601f43f185?...

I hope you find it useful and if you don't please disregard the video.

Congrats on launch and happy building!!

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

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Post by dboreham » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 10:39 PM UTC

Goodhart's law enters the room.

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

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Post by TruthWillHurt » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 11:20 PM UTC

Yes!! More emails from Github!!! Fck yea!!!

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

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Post by swyx » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 11:32 PM UTC

alkonaut wrote: post #10

throwanem wrote: post #2

What purpose does this serve?

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

waves hand these are not the stats you are looking for

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

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Post by debarshri » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 11:33 PM UTC

It is great tool for Engineering manager. If you can map it to DORA metrics or another derivative it might be valuable.

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

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Post by ajmurmann » Fri, Nov 03, 2023, 11:41 PM UTC

debarshri wrote: post #15

It is great tool for Engineering manager. If you can map it to DORA metrics or another derivative it might be valuable.

How would you get any of these out of GutHub?

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, 11:47 PM UTC

swyx wrote: post #14

alkonaut wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

waves hand these are not the stats you are looking for

These are not the stats we’re looking for.

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

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Post by dopidopHN » Sat, Nov 04, 2023, 12:16 AM UTC

personjerry wrote: post #6

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

I can’t help it! It’s the overachiever in me. I need to get on that leaderboard.

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

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Post by dopidopHN » Sat, Nov 04, 2023, 12:19 AM UTC

nescioquid wrote: post #7

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

See my other comment here. The minute I know I evaluated on code metrics . I start to game then. It’s not even malicious.

The second minute, it’s malicious and I just spend half a day becoming your best asset. while producing zero work of value and possibly creating tech debt.

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

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Post by dopidopHN » Sat, Nov 04, 2023, 12:20 AM UTC

marktangotango wrote: post #5

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.

Count, not even the line diff. Outch.