Add `Contributor count` metric to comparison table in project-level Value Streams Dashboard
Release note
You can now view a “Contributor Count” metric directly within project-level Value Stream Dashboards. This new metric helps provide critical context to your SDLC performance by showing how many unique users contributed each month. A drop in performance might not be a process issue — it could simply be a result of fewer people contributing. Now, when analyze team’s delivery metrics, managers have a clearer view of what’s driving change — and how contributor activity may be influencing results.
Why (Problem & Context)
When software leaders review SDLC performance (such as cycle time, throughput, and deployment frequency), they often lack full context on what might be influencing performance trends. A key factor that may affect SDLC metrics — is the number of contributors in a given time period.
Currently, in VSD, there is no visibility into how many unique contributors on the project-level, we have Contributor count only on the group-level.
Proposal
As per #456891 (comment 1994575534), the CONTRIBUTORS metric is now available at the project level. Since we're currently displaying it in the comparison table in the group-level Value Streams Dashboard, for feature parity, let's also add it to the table at the project level.
Metric specification for "Contributor count":
- Name:
Contributor count - Description:
Number of monthly unique users with contributions in the project - Drill down for deeper insights - https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/contribution_analytics (CA of the group)
- Go to docs - https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/profile/contributions_calendar.html#user-contribution-events
- Trend color - Green for an increase, red for a decrease in contributor count compared to the previous month.
- Source: based on CH data.
- Definition: same as contributions calendar.
- Aggregation Type: monthly contributions
- Data Refresh Frequency: near real time.