Types of Data to Collect

Lizard provided stats

• count LOC (no comments)
• CCN (cyclomatic score)
• Token count per function
• Parameter count per function

File based stats

• last modified
• size
  • lines
  • bytes
• encoding
• mode
  • executable? (does it have a shebang?)
  • symlink?
• non-text?
  • linker stats
  • compiler stats
  • architecture
• path
  • project path length
  • filename length
  • casing (snake,camel,etc)
  • extension (and does it match contents?)

Git based stats

• number of contributors to file
  • per-line ownership of file contents
  • per-token ownership of contents
  • line/token "heat" (frecency of changes)
• meta files
  • .gitkeep usage
  • lfs objects
  • binary objects
  • other git extensions in use

GitHub based stats

• number of issues
  • tags
  • number of comments (frecency)
• contributor heat index
  • commits vs hub activity
  • see github's little diagram of issues,prs,reviews,commits
  • do that per repo per user
• all the same data as the insights tab could provide
• relating stargazers/watchers to activity in the repo