Uber’s community: software development analytics for open source offices

Map of GitHub Issues and Pull requests geographical distribution in GitHub's Uber organization

On Thursday, November 15, 2018, Uber hosted its first open source event, Uber Open Summit 2018 for developers and community leaders. For this special occasion, Bitergia created a report to highlight Uber Open Source community engagement. Like many open source program offices, Uber open source had questions regarding project activity and performance, two important factors for decision making. Here are some examples of those questions:

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Welcome on board, Graal!

Almost a year ago, Graal was presented as a potential component of GrimoireLab. Today we are happy to announce Graal as a new GrimoireLab integration. Let’s go back in time and explain how we got to this point.

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September 12, 2019 0

Georg, a new Bitergian joins the nest!

Georg Link, co-founder of the Linux Foundation CHAOSS Project, recently joined the Bitergia team as our new Director of Sales. These are great news for Bitergia. Do you want to know why? Let us share our story!

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August 29, 2019 0

Improving Cauldron: now with Open Distro for Elasticsearch

Years ago, we developed a software development communities and processes analytics PaaS PoC based in GrimoireLab technologies. We called it Cauldron, and recently we have started working on a big update, that includes many new features, including Open Distro for Elascticsearch! Let’s see what’s coming…
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July 30, 2019 0

The day Google Groups decided to remove Bitergia subscription to all groups

Are you subscribed to any Google group and thinking about migrating your mail server to Google Suite? Then don’t miss this post, it can save you from an embarrassing moment.
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July 25, 2019 0

The geographical distribution of open source and internal contributors

Every other Thursday, the Common Metrics Working Group of CHAOSS meets to discuss about metrics that matter from a generic point of view for the health of open source projects.

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June 12, 2019 0

KPIs and metrics for DevRel Programs

More and more software companies are realizing how important is to have a solid developer community and start hiring DevRel roles for their core business. Tracking and collecting evidence of how your actions are performing to know if you’re archiving the established goals, is crucial when implementing DevRel programs.

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May 28, 2019 0

Cross-communities collaboration: A new era to develop communities

Since Open Source has been declared a key factor for gaining competitive advantage within Software Industry, more and more companies begin to develop and collaborate within Open Source projects. This implies an important growth within project ecosystems, with more complex interactions between projects. Thus, are community professionals prepared to face these changes that have a direct impact on how we develop communities?
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May 3, 2019 0

How does GitLab’s Merge Request workload evolve?

GitLab's projects Merge Requests Backlog workload evolution

We have been working for GitLab for some time, analyzing activity, community and performance in several of their projects like GitLab CE and GitLab EE. And of the questions they have asked has been: how many merge requests do we have open each week?. This workload insight helps to manage the effort spent in code review.

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March 26, 2019 0

How Bitergia Analytics helps digital transformation roadmap

When companies embark on a Digital Transformation journey, one of the first things some of these companies implement is the latest technology and tools available in the market within their software infrastructure. However, all this technology will be nonsense if you don’t have a clear purpose.
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March 21, 2019 0

Bitergia Software Development Analytics