Friday, February 23, 2007

StatSVN - Ruby vs. Java and "Developer Of The Month"

I'm a big fan of SVN, and I know it's in very common use throughout the development community, so I thought I'd give a shout out to an interesting project that extracts some fascinating SVN stats and draws lots of pretty pictures - StatSVN


We've now added a StatSVN task to our build scripts, and the figures it kicks out are just great - once you start looking, you can lose yourself in there for ages....


To give some random samples:


  • As of three days ago, there were 75130 lines of code in the Sonar trunk, of which Craig has contributed 33.6%, myself 32.1% and Jan 22.2%. As Jan has mostly been working on the Ruby On Rails interface, and Craig and I have mostly been writing the Java backend, what does this say about the relative expressive efficiency and productivity of each language?

  • Craig took "Developer Of The Month" for February, with 5286 lines, taking over from me in January with 7546 lines.

  • Over 80% of my changes are additions, with under 20% being updates. Craig is more or less the same, with a few percent more modifications - probably due to fixing my occasional "EVIL" quick hacks...

  • By far and away the most commits overall get done between 4pm and 5pm, but personally, I do three times as many commits between 2pm and 3pm than any other hour. Probably because I keep saying to myself got to finish this before I go to lunch...

  • Jan has not done a single commit before 12 noon :-) However, he's the only person to have committed between 1am and 2am!

  • I do a huge number of commits on a Monday (400+), followed by successively fewer every day until Friday (~60). Does this mean I'm fresher and more enthusiastic after the weekend, or is it that when I start the week, I go for the easiest tasks first, and ramp up towards the more difficult tasks as I go on? On the other hand, overall the most commits are done on a Friday, followed by Tuesday


You can also measure some metrics around files, rather than developers:


  • Overall, across all file types, we have an average of around 40 lines of code per file

  • 58.7% of the files in the repository are .java, but they contribute 73.3% of the total lines of code

  • On average, each .rhtml template is just 26.6 lines of code

  • The most amended file in the whole repository is the Rakefile!

I could go on for hours....but it's nearly 2pm and I need to commit some code, dammit! So install StatSVN on your repository and have a play yourself. It's fun.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

There goes my afternoon.

This looks really neat - esp. the Ant integration!

Alistair Davidson said...

It'll be interesting to see how the percentages change as the project progresses - at the moment we're still in development mode, but as it beds in and matures, I think we'll see, for instance, more and more amendments and fewer and fewer additions.

Anonymous said...

Thanks for the link!


Jason (StatSVN developer of the month for Feb 2006 to August 2006)

:)

Alistair Davidson said...

Jason: No problem, thanks for the software! :-)

It's a great tool, keep it up!

Anonymous said...

anybody know of a statsvn xml?

Anonymous said...

Anybody heard of any good alternatives to StatSVN?