Review one tool for Empirical Measures

[Ao99]

So far, 6 tools tested and this is the only one working well.

Please take a look at the results. Feedbacks will be appreciated.

Tool: git_stats
Target: 3D Slicer
Results: http://git-stats-slicer.ao9.io/ (Not available since 2020-4-22)the results are output as webpages, so I hosted for you to check. Data can be downloaded as spreadsheets.

The record of tested tools is in Methodology

[peter-michalski]

Looks like there is a lot of unique information that other tools did not show - specifically under the Activity and Author tabs.

I'm not seeing number of comment lines though - but the other tools can grab that.

[smiths]

@Ao99, I’ve reviewed your changes to the methodology file and the GitStats results for Slicer. I think you have found the tool (GitStats) that we should be using. I don’t like that the last update to the GitStats project was a year ago, but the results look good. It has many of the things we were looking for, and no tool is going to have everything. I like that you see graphs, but you can also download the raw data. We should be able to build scripts to process that data if we need to.

I’m impressed with how thorough your search and experiments have been. I don’t think there is any value in continuing the search. My vote is to proceed with GitStats. The true test will be to use it on a few projects and to see what story the data tells us. As we use the tool we will learn its capabilities and limitations.

We can discuss further in our meeting tomorrow, but given your thoroughness, I don't think we will need to devote much time to this agenda item. 😄

I'll leave this issue open for now, in case @oluowoj or @JacquesCarette have something to add. @Ao99 if there is no further discussion, you can close this issue after our meeting tomorrow.

[Ao99]

Thank you all for the suggestions.