SSW.GitSkills

Welcome to SSW.GitSkills! Thisis an experimental project to enumerate the commits made by members of the SSW Consulting organization.
The results are displayed graphically in chart form enabling you to easily visualize which developers have made the most commits relating to a particular skill.

Skills

Skills are enumerated from 2 data sources - Languages and Topics. Languages are automatically detected by GitHub and tagged onto a repository with every commit. Topics are added manually to a repository to help describe the technology, intent, and purpose.
See our rule: SSW Rules: Do you use Github topics?

Technologies Used

Blazor WebAssembly
C#
GraphQL

Limitations

There are a number of limitations with this approach, and unless these can be resolved this will remain an experimental project.

High dependence on users accurately tagging their repos with relevant topics
Sensitive to user commit habits (i.e. will favour User A if User A habitually commits code more frequently than User B)
Doesn't enumerate repos stored elsewhere (e.g. Azure DevOps, clients' repos, etc.)
Language detection is inconsistent (e.g., GitHub will detect JavaScript, TypeScript and Vue as languages, but won't detect Angular or React)

Todo

Add more chart types
Allow selecting of multiple skills
Allow navigation by user as well as by skill
(Potentially) Add authentication

Demo

Figure: Screenshot of the GitSkills demo

You can check out a working version of the prototype here!
Go to the link and explore the skills available (Languages and Topics). Click on one to see a breakdown of the commits by SSW developers.

You will need a Personal Access Token to access the GitHub API. You can get one from developer settings here: https://github.com/settings/tokens.

When creating your token make sure you add the following scopes:

repo:status
read:org
read:user
read:repo_hook
read:discussion
read:enterprise