Project Rotation: repometrics.json

[decause-gov]

MENTOR

• @natalialuzuriaga
• SWE USDC 2023
• Communication Channel(s) for your team/project (e.g. Slack Channel URL, GitHub Repo URL, etc...)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

• source a list of user generated metrics/labels to include in repometrics.json
• create a repometrics.json file that users can edit manually
• create a cookiecutter.json file that edits repometrics.json programmatically

SCOPING

• Days

SKILLS NEEDED

e.g. Back-end, Webdev

REQUIRED DELIVERABLES

DESIRED DELIVERY WINDOW

• June
• July
• August
• Any

NOTES/INSPO

• formatted metrics.json inspo: https://github.com/DSACMS/metrics/tree/main/app/site/_data/DSACMS/metrics
• cookiecutter inspo (link)

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• - Yes, I agree to spend file a project proposal ticket
• - Yes, I agree this project falls within a 2 week or less (ideally less) scope of time
• - Yes, I agree to spend an hour per week of office hours and 1x1 mentoring
• - Yes, I agree to spend an hour at the end of the sprint for filling out a Retro Template

[decause-gov]

06/17:

• Met with Nat. Discussed data for inputs and tags
• planning to meet again tomorrow to finalize as a team
• will go over different libs
• goal: have all repometrics identified for the .json file
• goal: ideas/mockups for a visualization.
• goal: simple text in the repo reports

[decause-gov]

06/21:

• Determined fields for repometrics.json
• PR incoming for template on repo-scaffolder
• complete: repometrics identified
• Next Week: mockups
• future: text in repo reports

[decause-gov]

06/24:

• Bulk of the code exists, will change templates, and then move on to creating mockups.
• Goal: finish templates, create mocks.
• Stetch: Start implementing in reports!

[RicardoZamora01]

Note: To have nested cookiecutters, the parent cookiecutter.json must have the flag:

"_copy_without_render": [<subdirectory>]

this will copy the subdirectory and the contents (child cookiecutter) without invoking it.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76262434/how-do-i-create-a-nested-cookiecutter

[IsaacMilarky]

• Good work on the tier 2 repometrics Populate Repometrics to Cookiecutter in Tier 2 #106
• ACTION: replace Python script with Bash script before PR merge, same cadence with tier 3 and tier 4
• Not going to be creating a repometrics.json file, instead going to use the code.json file 👍

[IsaacMilarky]

7/1:

• Merged tier 2, need to do tier 3 and 4
• Need to figure out how to get data on metrics site
• ACTION: Create frontend ticket for repometrics on the metrics website
• ACTION: Create backend ticket for repometrics on the metrics website
• Get rest of the tiers merged first

[RicardoZamora01]

7/3:

• all tiers PR's merged!
• ACTION: User research plan - Get feedback from around CMS with forming the categories/fields, update code with new fields if needed