Bootstrap: 71 commits in 2016 – is dev slowing down?

Created on 28 Apr 2016 · 8Comments · Source: twbs/bootstrap

_Update: @patrickhlauke notes that the Graph template only shows activity on the master branch, while v4 is on v4-dev. Thus my observation below is a false negative._

I depend on Bootstrap for all my front end projects (and am a great fan!) and would like to start using flexbox, which is v4 only. However alpha 2 is too buggy for my current form-heavy project. So I'm wondering when we can hope to expect alpha 3. The Graphs tab shows 71 commits so far this year, mostly by @cvrebert and none by @fat or @mdo. Is this a bad sign?

I understand that Bootstrap is probably a volunteer project for all involved so I don't mean to complain, rather the opposite, it's a fantastic tool with great support & documentation, I really love it.

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Please don't judge development pace by commits number. Bootstrap dev happens on PR's that are squashed before the merge, so stats are very mistaking here.

rafalp on 28 Apr 2016

And there are separate private repos for some of the more fundamental reengineering work, which won't even show up in the stats :)

I'd suggest, however, that this is not the right place to discuss this. May I suggest Slack or similar? See https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#using-the-issue-tracker

patrickhlauke on 28 Apr 2016

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Thanks @rafalp. I'm quite new to GitHub so that might be the case. Looking at the aforementioned graph, however, the trend suggests a slowdown, so a confirmation from the main committers would be nice. Ah, @patrickhlauke chimed in, thanks!

_{(Having said that, @mdo is now "Director of Design at GitHub" according to his Twitter profile. With that background, @mdo, is it possible for GitHub to give newbies like me better insight into "offline" work? I'm assuming @rafalp means pull requests when he writes PR, and that related work happens on a local computer or similar – but since you have a desktop client, perhaps some trend-like analysis might be done even for local work? Or perhaps a "progress calculator", e.g. "based on historic rates for this project, the X open issues and Y commit frequency suggests the next milestone will be met in Z days" – kind of like what you have in JIRA.)}

bjornte on 28 Apr 2016

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means pull requests when he writes PR, and that related work happens on a local computer or similar

As Patrick said, related work happens on private forks of main repo, and those are just that - private forks that we, little ones, have no access to.

If you are looking for way to spot changes in bootstrap, you may look at recently merged pull requests:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues?q=milestone%3Av4.0.0-alpha.3+sort%3Aupdated-desc+is%3Aclosed

Or look at activities listed on Pulse page (it also notes that @mdo is in fact active in project):
https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/pulse/monthly

rafalp on 28 Apr 2016

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(also note that "Graph" only shows activity on master branch, while v4 is on v4-dev)

patrickhlauke on 28 Apr 2016

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Again thanks for updates. The takeaway, it seems, is that for programmers not active on GitHub, the graph template leads to false negatives. I think this is the case because my current client's core developers dismissed Pattern Lab because their graph makes it look stale. Neither my client nor I understood what the graph template doesn't show. Would be nice with a heads up on the template.

bjornte on 28 Apr 2016