How to get the Subversion data

The Project metrics tool can get you the site activity statistics based on SVN client transactions on any given day or over a period of time. It can also provide the file downloads report based on the downloads from ViewVC. All the reports are 508 compliant (All charts have equivalent tabular view). Also, the reports are I18N compliant.

The criteria for determining the site activity can be either "Checkout," "Commit," "Other Subversion activities," or "All."

Following is the list of SVN client transactions that are captured for reporting:

• checkout and export - considered as "Checkout" type
• add, commit, copy, delete, import, midair, move, and propdel - considered as "Commit" type
• blame, diff, list, lock, log, merge, propedit, propset, status, switch, unlock, and update - considered as "Other Subversion activities"

Project activity report

This report provides the count of SVN client transactions in a project which helps:

• The project users to determine the project health.
• The project leaders to analyze the project productivity and participation.

Assume that on Day 1, there are 2 commits in project A. Also, assume there are 3, 5, 2 and 2 commits on Day 2, 3, 4 and 5 respectively. So if you generate a report on the Subversion commits that happened on these five days, the chart will show the count of commits on Day 1 as 2, Day 2 as 3, Day 3 as 5, Day 4 as 2, and Day 5 as 2. The below is the chart output:

You see the following information from this chart.

• There were 2 commits on Day 1, 3 on Day 2, 5 on Day 3, 2 on Day 4 and Day 5.

Active users report

This report provides the count of active users in a project based on the specified SVN client activity criteria. These reports help:

• The project users to know about their team's participation in the project.
• The project leaders to understand the project membership and team member's participation and productivity.

This is a sample Active users chart:

You see the following information from this chart.

• There were 5, 12, 6, 3, 5, 4, 1, 4, 7, 10, 13 and 1 active users in the project in the last 14 days from 2007-09-20.

File downloads report

This report provides the count and size of file downloads performed using the "download" link available in ViewVC page (shown in following graphic).

These reports help the community managers to get the size/visibility metrics around file downloads. For example, by looking at the download count, they can determine which file is more popular among the community. Here is an example for File downloads report:

The Subversion activity metrics helps the domain owner of the site and community managers to analyze the performance, size, and health of the site. For example, they can determine the size/visibility metrics around file downloads at a specified time frame in the entire domain or in a custom list of projects. Also, they can see the itemized list of top N active projects, active users, and active file downloads in the last week. For more information on this, visit How to get the Subversion data at the domain level.