[petsc-dev] PETSc statistics

[Jed Brown]

Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> writes:

> Jed Brown <jed at jedbrown.org> writes:
>
>> Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> writes:
>>
>>> Sean Farley <sean at farley.io> writes:
>>>
>>>> Andrew McRae <A.T.T.McRae at bath.ac.uk> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> But we clone from our fork (formerly Bitbucket firedrake/petsc, now Github
>>>>> firedrakeproject/petsc), not from Bitbucket petsc/petsc.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, the stats won't be perfect, of course. Hopefully, useful enough
>>>> for some general idea of the numbers.
>>>
>>> Also, there are harder questions to answer: does a pull count? If so,
>>> what about a no-op pull? A pull of one commit? etc.
>>
>> It would be fascinating to know how often people issue pulls.  For
>> example, we really have no idea how many people track 'master' or
>> 'next', but daily pulls, particularly those not at exactly the same time
>> each day (e.g., cron/nightly testing versus issued by a human) would
>> help give a picture.
>
> Fair enough. Attached is a new PDF with that data. As you mention,
> though, there's no good way to tell a pull is from a bot. 

Unique IP?  Doesn't help for on-demand CI systems, but would be relevant
to institutional machines.

> I've modded out the more obvious on-the-hour / half-hour / etc. but
> still, you take this with a grain of salt.

Cool, thanks.
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