A journaling experiment for week 12 of 2018
I am live-blogging my entire process and thought patterns around work this week. Follow along!
Posts:
- Fri at 22:19 - An audit of the node.js i18n groups
- Fri at 21:06 - Minor website updates
- Fri at 19:34 - Burning the midnight oil
- Wed at 15:18 - Administration done
- Tue at 10:21 - The Coffee and Code Meetup
- Mon at 21:52 - Monday post mortem
- Mon at 21:35 - Using Rake to publish a post
- Mon at 21:09 - Beginning again
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Let’s check in on the Node.js i18n committee. I want to run name-your-contributors on the translation repos to see if there has been activity recently, now that I’ve cleaned up NYC this week (yesterday morning). This was suggested here.
So, I went and built a shell script that automatically pulls data - comments, PRs, and reviews - from Node’s 15 or so i18n repositories, from the past year. I used jq to filter the JSON objects I got back, and used some really basic shell scripting to print it out into a nice Markdown file that I could plop into the issue. All in all, it took around an hour - and now we know more about the activity in those repositories, and I know that name-your-contributors can be used for some pretty cool statistics.
Since GitHub repos are cheap, I uploaded all of the code here. I’m feeling pretty proud about this one. Here’s an example of a result:
This list was automatically generated with the following command:
$ name-your-contributors -u nodejs -r nodejs-de -a 2017-03-01
There were 3 issue commentators who made 6 comments. There were 0 reviewers who made null review comments. There were 0 issue creators who made null issues. There were 2 PR commentators who made 2 comments. There were 1 PR creators who made 1 prs.
It’s pretty clear from this that there just wasn’t much activity - no new issues, only one new PR. Hopefully we can do better in the future!
I am going to take a break and move around; time to pack for my trip to Vermont tomorrow.