Development Activity Metrics

Definition

Development Activity metric shows the 'pure' development activity. It excludes events that are not development related like:

• Comments on issues;
• Issues created and closed;
• Creating of forks;
• Comments on commits;
• People following an issue;
• Downloading releases;
• Watching a repository;
• Project management events;
• Others.

This allows to better compare projects that use GitHub for issue tracking and projects that use an external tool for issue tracking. If such events are not excluded then some projects could have inflated activity just by discussion what they are going to build without actually building it. Inactive projects might have non-zero activity caused by people creating issues and asking the team to fix something, without any actual work being done.

Access

Free Access

Data Type

Timeseries Data

Change Metrics

Change Metrics

Frequency

Five-Minute Intervals

Latency

Development Activity Data Latency

Available Assets

Available for these assets

Note: All metrics are available for the same set of assets.

SanAPI

The metric is available under the dev_activity names.

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{
  getMetric(metric: "dev_activity") {
    timeseriesData(
      slug: "santiment"
      from: "2020-01-13T00:00:00Z"
      to: "2020-01-18T00:00:00Z"
      interval: "1d"
    ) {
      datetime
      value
    }
  }
}

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