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Consider committer data, not just commit author

Open smola opened this issue 6 years ago • 3 comments

A commit has a commit author and committer. They may be the same or not. It seems we are currently using only author data and not committer.

smola avatar Sep 07 '19 16:09 smola

@irinakhismatullina please check this: what do we use to build the graph?

vmarkovtsev avatar Oct 10 '19 21:10 vmarkovtsev

Yes, we definitely use commit authors, not committers.

irinakhismatullina avatar Oct 11 '19 08:10 irinakhismatullina

I guess it depends on which of them we want to analyze. I don't know very well how big is the difference between the two in practice, but it seems that in theory we are more interested with the authors of the code. And also I'd expect that there were more bots among committers than among authors, but I'm not sure

irinakhismatullina avatar Oct 11 '19 09:10 irinakhismatullina