Technical Progress General Inquiry about augur

[sgoggins]

Hey @bkeepers and @wingr : A few thoughts on our approach here would be most welcome. :)

[GeorgLink]

How and to what extent are health and sustainability indicators understood by community owners and other stakeholders?

Just a note: The discussion on developing and understanding of the indicators occurs in the HealthIndicators repository

[bkeepers]

Hey @sgoggins, sorry for the delay here. I just wanted to give you a heads up that I'm at FOSDEM right now now and it'll be a few more days before I get a chance to reply.

[wingr]

@sgoggins likewise sorry for the delayed response.

Looking over the technical section, your approach looks sound to me. I also believe that GHTorrent and GitHub Archive are going to be your best source of information, although @bkeepers knows a little more about the public data sources than I do. I believe that you should be able to get what you need from the GitHub archive without needing privileged API access and that it should provide you with enough up-to-date information since it is updated hourly.

There are also a number of scripts and wrapper code that people have created to help pull data from these sources that you can find by Googling.

A team I work closely with is in the process of trying to get better documentation around using these public data sets, so ping me with questions or challenges that your encounter and I will pass them along and try to help where I can.

[bkeepers]

Hey @sgoggins, I agree with @wingr that GHTorrent and GitHub Archive are going to be your best sources of information.

As for keeping the information up to date, I don't have any great advice at the moment, but if this is still a challenge, could connect you with some folks I know that keep an internal copy of the GHTorrent data set to see how they do it.

How's everything going with regard to access to the data?

[howderek]

We got this worked out!