Usability testing a tool for OSS maintainers

[nitinvasanth]

We are building a tool that helps OSS maintainers with Metrics and Analytics. Being an OSS maintainer yourself would you be interested to give feedback on our free tool so that It can benefit all OSS devs ?

[BaseMax]

Dear Nitin @nitinvasanth
Hi;

Can you please explain a bit more about Metrics and Analytics?
Do you means a tool to count number of visits of repositories and download?

Best

[nitinvasanth]

Thanks @BaseMax !

This is a tool that helps Maintainers understand the Top contributiors in a repository, their code impact, PR stats etc . Instead of Lines of code, a more adjusted metric is used. In short think of it as Gitprime for Opensource Maintainers. Mailing you the full details !

[lucasgonze]

BaseMax, I'm glad to get to talk. We analyze the structure of code across git history.

The starting point for our metrics was this paper: Towards Quantifying the Development Value of
Code Contributions

Since that time the analytical methods have matured. The current baseline is edit distance between commits, where any given commit is represented using the abstract syntax tree rather than raw source.

[BaseMax]

Hi, Sorry for the delay, I had a very busy week. (Because I was the technical manager of "5th international conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis")

Thank you for your message. I would like to try this platform/tool.

I just registered on the merico.build website and logged in.

I have a suggestion, think about it: At first glance we do not see the submit form button and in this it is hidden at the bottom of the page and we have to scroll :)

Note: My screen resolution is 1920x1080 and it's not bad.

Now I'm a Noob user at there: https://merico.build/profile/406

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Your commits might be associated with different email addresses. You can add them in settings.

I have not any idea about this.
Maybe a bug since I usually put email address with Upper-case? lol

[BaseMax]

Your website show I'm 10% top in JavaScript language?

JavaScript
26265 ELOCs
Top 10%

What do you means by ELOCs?

LOC = Line of code

so E?

[BaseMax]

I think this would be nice if you add a Tooltip to show what's is ELOC and how you calculate this one. (At least show us this guide only in own profile)

[BaseMax]

There seems to be a problem with the template CSS, which on most pages has a useless horizontal scrollbar.

[lucasgonze]

Max, you are excellent. Try candidate.merico.build instead. This is the next generation that we are about to ship. Just be sure to hit that little "WIP" toggle on this bottom of the menu: [image: image.png]

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[lucasgonze]

Your website show I'm 10% top in JavaScript language?

JavaScript
26265 ELOCs
Top 10%

What do you means by ELOCs?

LOC = Line of code

so E?

Detailed documentation:
https://merico.build/help#eloc

ELOC has the same intent as LOC: measuring value created by developers. It is calculated as the edit distance between two commits, where a commit is represented as an abstract syntax tree.

[lucasgonze]

There seems to be a problem with the template CSS, which on most pages has a useless horizontal scrollbar.

Thanks for that. What browser do you use?

[lucasgonze]

Good idea. Thank you. About the top 10% badge, this is based on a benchmark using repos to which contributors to the top 500 repos on GitHub have contributed.

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