[CHAOSS] suggestion: standardize abbreviated names of entities and some metrics
dmg
dmg at turingmachine.org
Tue Oct 2 18:07:56 UTC 2018
Hi everybody,
sorry I missed the call today.
During the Vancouver meeting I realized that we have problems
connecting tools. Part of the problem is that every tool
uses a different name for the same entities.
I would like to suggest that as part of CHAOSS, there is also an
attempt to standardize how to call an entity
in a repository/database. Note these are not the names of the
entities, but their abbreviations.
This is what I mean:
1. Entities.
A commit has a commit id, "author" and a "committer" and a
authorship-date, and a committing date.
What should we call them?
cregit calls them: cid, author, committer, autdate, comdate,
a subderived entity: we prefix with an identifier:
author => autemail, autname
2. Counts.
What should counts be called? We prefix the entity with n;
ncommits, nauthor, nfiles, etc.
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