On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 4:19 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote: > I wonder if we should consider adding a field to the CF app *specifically* > to track things like this. What I'm thinking is a field that's set (or at > least verified) by the person who flags a patch as committed with choices > like Trivial/Simple/Medium/Complex (trivial being things like typo fixes > etc, which today can hugely skew the stats).
I think this would be pretty subjective ... and there are also a LOT of patches that don't go through the CF process. The ratio of commits to commitfest entries is at least 5:1. If we only track what gets registered in the CF app we're ignoring a huge amount of stuff.
Definitely. It's easier to add structured data there than in the commit message though -- but we could also define a standard to add it to the commit messages. Or some inbetween. But whichever way we do it, it's likely going to lead to a non-trivial amount of work to maintain. So the big question is, is the data we can get out of it worth it?
