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| title: "Commit Author Count" |
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| Commit Author Count |
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| ## What is this metric? |
| The number of commit authors who have committed code. |
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| ## Why is it important? |
| Take inventory of project/team R&D resource inputs, assess input-output ratio, and rationalize resource deployment. |
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| ## Which dashboard(s) does it exist in |
| N/A |
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| ## How is it calculated? |
| This metric is calculated by counting the number of commit authors in the given data range. |
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| <b>Data Sources Required</b> |
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| This metric relies on commits collected from GitHub, GitLab or BitBucket. |
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| <b>Transformation Rules Required</b> |
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| N/A |
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| ## How to improve? |
| As a secondary indicator, this helps assess the labor cost of participating in coding. |
