[teampractices] [TPG/URGENT-ISH] Thoughts on Gerrit Cleanup Day

[Andre Klapper]

On Tue, 2015-08-04 at 16:58 -0700, Arthur Richards wrote:
> Couple of questions - are there plans to document/track
> 'unmaintained' repositories? 

That sounds pretty related to the discussion in
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T102920 (input welcome!). AFAIK we
don't even have a general "consensus" how to define "unmaintained". :-/

Are you basically after automatically updated stats that state
"Repository XYZ saw the last merged code change on YYYY-MM-DD" (and
hopefully exclude merged translation updates)?
Only thing I know is: We do have some activity charts per repo at
http://korma.wmflabs.org/browser/scm-repos.html but I have no idea what
that list is sorted by or if it is sortable. Feel free to file a
request under "Analytics-Tech-community-metrics" in Phabricator.

> Further, are there additional metrics that can come out of the GCD 
> that we don't get out of Korma that would be useful information to 
> have (eg patches to non-WMF maintained repos vs patches to WMF 
> maintained repos)?

I'm not aware of any (machine-readable?) "repositories maintained by
WMF folks" information available anywhere. 
I am/was only aware of files which list the (MW extension) repos
deployed on WMF servers. Those were once upon a time listed in
https://git.wikimedia.org/raw/mediawiki%2ftools%2frelease.git/HEAD/make-wmf-branch%2fdefault.conf
and now that I check I see they are not anymore. Hmm hmm.

andre
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