Pull Request Stats

Github action to print relevant stats about Pull Request reviewers.

The objective of this action is to:

• Reduce the time taken to review the pull requests.
• Encourage quality on reviews.
• Help deciding which people to assign as reviewers.

Running this action will add a section at the bottom of your pull requests description:

Each reviewer has a link pointing to their historical behavior of each reviewer:

Usage

Just add this action to one of your workflow files:

      - name: Run pull request stats
        uses: flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats@master

Action inputs

The possible inputs for this action are:

Parameter	Description	Default
token	GITHUB_TOKEN or a Personal Access Token with "repo" permission.	GITHUB_TOKEN
repositories	A comma separated list of github repositories to calculate the stats. When specifying other repo(s) it is mandatory to pass a Personal Access Token in the token parameter.	Current repository
organization	If you prefer, you may specify the name of your organization to calculate the stats across all of its repos. When specifying an organization it is mandatory to pass a Personal Access Token in the token parameter.	null
period	The length of the period used to calculate the stats, expressed in days.	30
charts	Whether to add a chart to the start or not. Possible values: true or false.	false
disable-links	If true, removes the links to the detailed charts. Possible values: true or false.	false
sort-by	The column used to sort the data. Possible values: REVIEWS, TIME, COMMENTS.	REVIEWS
limit	The maximum number of rows to display in the table. A value of 0 means unlimited.	0

Examples

Minimal config

Add this to the file .github/workflows/stats.yml in your repo:

name: Pull Request Stats

on: pull_request

jobs:
  stats:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run pull request stats
        uses: flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats@master

This config will:

• Calculate the reviewer stats for the current repo in the lasts 30 days
• Add links to the historial data
• Sort results by the "total reviews" column by default

and print a table like this:

	User	Total reviews	Median time to review	Total comments
	jartmez	37	22m	13
	manuelmhtr	35	48m	96
	ernestognw	25	1h 27m	63
	javierbyte	12	30m	0
	Phaze1D	4	34m	1

Visual config

Add this to the file .github/workflows/stats.yml:

name: Pull Request Stats

on: pull_request

jobs:
  stats:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Run pull request stats
        uses: flowwer-dev/pull-request-stats@master
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.ADD_A_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN }}
          organization: 'piedpiper'
          period: 7
          charts: true
          disable-links: true
          sort-by: 'COMMENTS'

This config will:

• Calculate the reviewer stats for all the repos in the "piedpiper" organization in the lasts 7 days
• Display charts for the metrics
• Remove the links to detailed charts
• Sort results by the "comments" column

and print a table like this:

	User	Total comments	Total reviews	Median time to review
	manuelmhtr 🥇	12 ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀	8 ▀▀▀▀	53m
	jartmez 🥈	3 ▀▀	4 ▀▀	58m
	JohanAlvarado 🥉	1 ▀	2 ▀	1d 16h 18m ▀▀▀▀▀▀
	Estebes10	1 ▀	1	19m
	ernestognw	0	2 ▀	2h 15m
	Phaze1D	0	3 ▀	1h 28m
	javierbyte	0	1	21h 24m ▀▀▀

Stats

The stats are calculated as following:

• Time to review: It is the time taken by a reviewer from the Pull Request publication or the last Commit push (whatever happens last) to the first time the pull request is reviewed.
• Median time to review: It is the median of the times to review of all Pull Requests reviewed by a person in the period.
• Total reviews: It is the count of all Pull Requests reviewed by a person in the period.
• Total comments: It is the count of all the comments while reviewing other user's Pull Requests in the period (comments in own PRs don't count).

Used by

Used by tens of successful teams like:

Lululemon	Ganfully	Delivery Hero	SHE Inc	Hatch	Oneflare	Confluent Inc	Yotepresto

Help

This project is maintained by a single person, considering supporting the project by:

• Sharing your feedback.
• Joining the community.
• Becoming a sponsor.

License

AGPLv3