[HN Gopher] Show HN: GitInsights - a weekly summary email of you... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: GitInsights - a weekly summary email of your team's GitHub activity Author : jeffreyjsatx Score : 19 points Date : 2023-11-03 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (gitinsights.io) (TXT) w3m dump (gitinsights.io) | throwanem wrote: | What purpose does this serve? | marktangotango wrote: | Give pointy head bosses (PHBs) insight into who is the most | productive. At least that's how my former VP of engineering, | the one who measured developer productivety by checking git | commit counts, would use it. | nescioquid wrote: | Probably can be divined from the sort order of the report. | | I'm surprised to keep encountering two bad ideas in software | which everyone has known are bad ideas for a rather long time: | | a) integration by means of a shared database | | b) making engineers even _suspect_ they are being evaluated on | some source-code metrics | alkonaut wrote: | If these are the stats you are looking for, then this tool | provides those stats. | westurner wrote: | Do Bigquery queries of github activity gharchive still work? | https://www.gharchive.org/#resources | https://github.com/igrigorik/gharchive.org | | GH itself shcould provide a BigQuery-like query interface for API | events | | /? "github archive" inurl:awesome site:github.com | https://www.google.com/search?q=%22github+archive%22+inurl%3... | personjerry wrote: | Seems like a great way to get your engineers to optimize for | vanity metrics | nimbius wrote: | This is great for teams that subscribe 100% to devops but have an | entrenched core of shitty managers that still expect a weekly | summary of their work in email. | | It serves no other purpose than to engineer around awful | leadership. | peddamat wrote: | I tried installing the app and got a "The change you wanted was | rejected." error. | maddynator wrote: | Hi Jeffreyjsatx, | | I tried GitInsight and wanted to share my feedback. Recorded a 5 | min feedback video. | | https://www.loom.com/share/0fb4b5ec2f2744ed9f1239601f43f185?... | | I hope you find it useful and if you don't please disregard the | video. | | Congrats on launch and happy building!! | dboreham wrote: | Goodhart's law enters the room. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-11-03 23:00 UTC)