Hey everyone,
i want to introduce Gerrie [1] to you.
Gerrie is a crawler for Googles code review system Gerrit.
As far as i know, the Wikimedia community, use Gerrit to improve and develop various products like Mediawiki, Wiki-Extensions, Infrastructure and so on. The Gerrit instance is located at
gerrit.wikimedia.org [2].
During this activity a lot of interesting data will be created in the background. Gerrie is a tool to transform this data into a RDBMS like MySQL. After this you can create analysis with it with simple sql queries.
To retrieve the data the SSH API of Gerrit will be used. The benefit from this is you can use every Gerrit system to analyze like TYPO3 [3]. I assume that most of you are registered at
gerrit.wikimedia.org [2] and entered their SSH public key into the system. Gratulations, you are ready to crawl the data as well.
Gerrie is written in PHP and complete documented [4].
Even the database scheme is documented [5] to help you to analyze the data. For a quickstart you can follow the documented Getting started guide [6].
Results of this analysis are wide spreaded.
In this analysis every activity will results into points. Based on the sum of the points a score list will be created. The background color is determined by a hash function based on the users name. This mean: Same Name = Same color.
Please take in mind: This does not reflect the contribution to the community. This displays only activity by a user in a specific system.
I would love to see you as a kind of tester for this tool.
If you need help, do not hesitate to ask. I try to help as much as possible.
Have fun during testing.
Cheers,
Andy