VSD: Number of distinct/unique contributors - frontend

Release note

Introducing our latest metric, "Contributor Count," in the value stream dashabord designed to track adoption trends over time. Sourced from our robust Clickhouse DB and aligned with GitLab Contributions Calendar events.

Overview

In VSD: Number of distinct/unique contributors - e... (#432838 - closed) we are exposing the unique contributors via the graphql. We want to display this data in the VSD metrics comparison table.

Metric specification for "Contributor count":

1. Name: Contributor count
2. Description: Number of monthly unique users with contributions in the group
3. Drill down for deeper insights - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/contribution_analytics
4. Go to docs - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/contributions_calendar.html#user-contribution-events
5. Trend color - green for increase

More details about "Contributor count":

• Objective: Track the adoption trends over time.
• Source: based on CH data.
• Definition: same as contributions calendar.
• Aggregation Type: monthly contributions
• Data Refresh Frequency: near real time.
• Will be visualized in the Comparison panel.