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Code Analysis, Code base history graph
Why does the code base history graph start in 2000 regardless of when the project actually had a first commit?
A project started in 2007, for example, has a code base history graph which shows seven years of useless non-existence on the graph, and just one year worth of activity. All the data is crammed into 1/7th of the visible space. Why?
why not scale the graph to show only that period of time during which the project actually existed?
This problem will only get worse as time goes by. Imagine, in 2080, the same situation -- a 1 year old project -- would show 79 years of nothing, and 1 year of data in a vertical spike at the end just a few pixels wide.
-- steve
We wanted all projects to be on the same scale, so that when you look around at various projects it's quickly apparent which projects have been around a long time and which ones haven't.
The intention of this chart isn't so much to show the detailed day-to-day fluctuations in code size, but to show the long-term trend. If your project is young
, then the graph should reflect that.
I'm sure that by the time 2080 rolls around we will all have moved on to better things. :-)
Conversely, a project like ArgoUML which had its first commit in 1998 gets the first couple of years of activity chopped off.
Another annoying graph scale disparity is the committers summary page which only shows 5 year contributions while the individual committer pages show the full history. This can cause early contributors, including founders and other significant early developers, to get substantially discounted, as it does in our case.
It would be nice to have access to graphs of the full project history for all types of graphs.
