The LFX Insights, September 2021 release delivers support for the new Trends dashboards that provides a comprehensive analytics of project performance, in the form of metrics, for all projects and project-groups. The metrics computed for the trends dashboard are more focused towards the code development areas such as, contributors, commits, lines of code, change requests, and issue management.
A global trends dashboard, the default landing page, for LFX Insights shows data aggregated across all the onboarded projects on LFX Insights. These data visualizations help project teams understand project performance and monitor the health of the project.
Global Trends: Shows aggregated performance data of all projects onboarded to Insights.
Project Group Trends: Shows aggregated performance data of all sub projects under the project group or foundation.
Individual Project Trends: Shows aggregated performance data of the individual project.
Project Card View: You can still see the old project card view by clicking View All Projects tab or search for the project using Search Projects filed.
Enhancement of project and project group landing page: The project and project group landing page shows the Trends dashboard when you click on a project card. This makes it easier to view aggregated metrics data for a project group, and to view sub groups under the project group.
You can view all the sub projects under a project group, navigate to the sub project page by clicking a sub project, and search for a sub project using the Search project field.
High level aggregated all-time stats at the project level: The aggregated statistics across key code and ecosystem related metrics at each project level are displayed which is an extension to the previous high level statistics that were available only at the project group level.
New Navigation menu: Effective changes to the navigation menu to clearly reflect the data sources under each category. For example, a new menu option called Collaboration Metrics is added that includes data sources that fall under Chat, Mailing Lists and Documentation categories while Earned Media is available as a separate option.
The Summary dashboards are available, as before, under each menu option for Technical Metrics and Collaboration Metrics respectively.
Following are the release details:
Latest Release- September 2021 - New Trends (Global Trends and Project Trends) dashboard, and more
June 2021- Support for new Social Media Metrics data source, and more
May 2021- Support for GitHub reviews, Google groups, Circle CI data sources, and more
The LFX Insights, May 2021 release delivers support for new data sources and metrics— GitHub Reviews, Changeset Reviews metrics as source control systems, Circle CI as build system, and Google Groups as Email system to visualize project related communication activities. Gerrit Changeset Approval and GitHub PR Efficiency dashboards are enhanced for better clarity of project data.
The following new features are added in May 2021 release of LFX Insights:
For more information on added features, see https://lfx.linuxfoundation.org/blog/lfx-insights-release-may-2021
New GitHub Reviews Dashboard and an improved GitHub Efficiency Dashboard are added to provide more clarity around pull request merge times. GitHub Efficiency Dashboard is redesigned to help project maintainers set goals around PR merge times. For details about new visualizations of GitHub PR, see Reviews and Efficiency.
Google Groups addition expands Insights email coverage. It provides richer context around what the community is talking about, and help project community managers to better engage and acknowledge their community members. To know amore about how google groups data is onboarded, see How does Insights collect Google Groups Mailing List Data? **** For details about visualizations, see Google Groups.
Circle CI Dashboards: LFX Insights supports a new build system— CircleCI, providing various builds related-metrics right on the Insights dashboard for your project, helping you monitor your project’s build pipeline and improve workflow efficiency. For details about visualizations, see CircleCI.
Gerrit Changesets Dashboards are redesigned to help project maintainers analyze and set goals around changeset approvals and merge times. For details about the added/enhanced visualizations, see Gerrit Changeset.
The LFX Insights, Jun 2021 release delivers support for new data source— Social Media Metrics. In this release, Insights supports only twitter to track and visualize twitter data. In the upcoming releases, Insights will provide support for Facebook and LinkedIn.
To know how the social media data are calculated, refer to Insights FQAs.
For details about social media metrics dashboards, Social Media Metrics.