TikiWiki stats are incorrect

Hi!

"Over the entire history of the project, 148 contributors have submitted code. 42 have done so in the last year." http://www.ohloh.net/projects/39/analyses/latest/contributors

It should be over 200. Please see: http://cvs.tikiwiki.org/cvsmonitor.pl?module=Tiki.Tiki&authorsortby=commits http://cia.vc/stats/project/tikiwiki

When I check the enlistments: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/39/enlistments

I notice that this: :pserver:anonymous:@tikiwiki.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki Step 1 of 3: Downloading source code history (Failed) tiki

It is written: "We are already aware of the problem, and you do not need to take any specific action. We usually correct failures within the next business day."

I have checked several times and the error message seems to persist.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

M ;-)

Hi again!

Checkout now seems to be OK: :pserver:anonymous:@tikiwiki.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki Ohloh update completed 13 days ago. http://www.ohloh.net/projects/39/enlistments

But stats are way off. For example:

13 commits: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/39/contributors/2098

456 commits: http://cvs.tikiwiki.org/cvsmonitor.pl?cmd=viewBrowseAuthor&author=marclaporte&module=Tiki.Tiki

Overalls stats seem to be missing a big chunk of CVS

Thanks!

M ;-)

Broken again as of now: ":pserver:anonymous:@tikiwiki.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/tikiwiki Step 1 of 3: Downloading source code history (Failed)"

Thanks!

M ;-)

Hi Robin,

Thank you for your help.

We have 2 branches (BRANCH-1-9 and HEAD) at the moment. We had other branches (ex.: BRANCH-1-8) before but they are all deprecated.

Missing commits seem to be on BRANCH-1-9

Here is an example of a commit to BRANCH-1-9 in August 2006

cvs view diff: http://tikiwiki.cvs.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/tiki/templates/tiki-calendar.tpl?r1=1.46.2.64&r2=1.46.2.65

cvs monitor: http://cvs.tikiwiki.org/cvsmonitor.pl?cmd=viewBrowseVersion&version=1.46.2.65&file=templates/tiki-calendar.tpl&module=Tiki.Tiki

cvs mailing list http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?threadname=E1GH7HC-000352-3z%40mail.sourceforge.net&forumname=tikiwiki-cvs

Best regards,

M ;-)

Hi Robin,

The problem is still not solved.

Best regards,

M ;-)

Hi!

It makes sense to only import a single branch so as not to count the same effort twice (when it is merged up).

However, it skews our stats. We have some developers, such as myself, which focus on bugfixing. And some others are more focused on developing the amazing features of the next version.

The mystery is solved. That's the way the cookie crumbles :-)

Best regards,

M ;-)

Hi again Robin!

Would there be a way to use another Branch than HEAD?

It would be much more representative to use BRANCH-1-9 because it's the stable, official release. And change to BRANCH-1-10 when that comes out.

Thanks!

M ;-)

Hi Robin,

Please inform them there is a bounty of a keg of beer (provided mail-order of beer is legal where they are) for the people that fix it.

M ;-)

More likely by UPS or Fedex :-)

ok, we are now using SVN instead of CVS and it seems to have affected the stats.

169 contributors here: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/tikiwiki/contributors (should be over 200 but at least, it's closer)

but only 47 contributors on the widget: http://www.ohloh.net/projects/tikiwiki/widgets

Best regards,

M ;-)

Hi Robin!

1- The widget shows the total number of lines of code and the total value of the project, so why not show the total number of contributors?

This has surely been debated/discussed.

In our information, we say that over 200 people have contributed to the source code of TikiWiki (which never ceases to impress me). This makes it awkward for us to put the nice ohloh widget, as you can see here: http://tikiwiki.org/Top-10+stats

2- The "Effort" of 652 Person Years seems too high to me. TikiWiki is 5 and half years old. This would be an average effort of about 120 persons per year since the beginning of the project. While we had loads of people working on the project, most are not full time. Maybe something is being counted in double?

Best regards,

M ;-)

Hi Robin!

Assuming nobody will have a cow, may I suggest a switch to "total contributors" in the widget?

Assuming it's fairly easy to implement, we can always rollback if it provokes a debate, which I doubt.

Best regards,

M ;-)

Hi again!

According to CIA, TikiWiki has 15 + 172 others = 187 contributors.

But for Ohloh, "Over the entire history of the project, 169 developers have contributed."

I think it's because CIA also takes into account the CVS stuff. We still have our stable BRANCH-1-9 on CVS, while the newer BRANCH-1-10 is on SVN.

I wonder if I should add the CVS to the enlistements? But I am worried it'll mess up the stats.

Anyways... I won't do anything for now and until someone has some good advice.

Best regards,

M ;-)

I just replaced this with this.

I am hoping it will help with our stats. This is the branch we are really using until we release 1.10.0 (soon!)

Count of: Codebase 2,336,667 Effort (est.) 669 Person Years Avg. Salary $ year $ 36,811,554 seems much too high. I think something is counted in double.

The current image here jumps from 1.5M LOCs to 2.5M in a suspiciously short amount of time, and a few months later, from 2.5M to 3.5M

I'll revert if it makes things worse :-)

Best regards,

M ;-)

I am reverting because it is now reporting: "Short source control history (4 months)" and only "44 contributors".

One day, I'll figure it out :-)

M ;-)