Show project history

[jasonLaster]

First of all, great job!

This is a really nice way to capture the positive energy in the community and encourage us to compete over a metric based around collaboration.

As a maintainer, I'd love to see a historical graph, like what you show for languages, but for projects. Do you think that's possible?

Also, how do you get all of this data!

[Nagasaki45]

Hi @jasonLaster, thanks a lot for the positive feedback, again :-)

Tracking projects history is a good idea, altough very problematic with the current design.
Currently, the system scrapes pulse pages from github (all of them, actually), and keeps only the 5000 most active projects. There are ~70 million projects on github, and I can't (and don't want to) keep everything. If I will start to track projects history, when project "activness" fall and they are deleted the history will go to the trash with them. Languages are completely different story, because I never delete languages.

Let's keep this ticket open for now. Some people suggested using the GitHub Archive as the data source. Than, this feature might be more feasible.

What do you think?

[Nagasaki45]

I'm thinking about trying to implement this by issueing a request to GitHub Archive when the user ask for the information. I really prefer not to hold all of this data in the DB, and it might be OK to have a 2-3 seconds spinner when we get / process the data, isn't it?