New Features
Usability improvements
Better usability with bookmarkable open pull request, retrospective summary and statistics
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Retrospective summary redesign
We redesigned the retrospective to improve usability and make the important information stand out more clearly. Additionally, we also link to the statistics from metrics, to allow a drill-down and to better connect the statistics and the retrospective summary.
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Pull Request Activities
Spark line in open pull request list
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Pull request detail modal now shows the activities of a single pull request to get a quick overview of what happend without the need to scroll through the activity stream:
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Statistics improvements
remove Replace existing merge frequency statistic , replace it with pull request distribution
The existing merge frequency statistic didn’t add any more value anymore than the new pull request distribution. ..
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on summary only a small distribution graphic
move open prs to bottom in distribution graph, evtl. adapt coloring
extend 'single pr' statistics with: pr title, issue infos and target branches (for separate coloring)
explore Y-Axis visualization options e.g. logarithmic to reduce impact of outliers
show added/removed LOC instead only sum
subgraph to LOC statistic to show added/deleted per day
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That is why we replaced it with the distribution statistics from the retrospective summary. This statistic shows you the different states of your pull requests at different points in time and helps you to see if the pull request workload was equally spread, or if the merges all happened at sprint end, possibly having an impact on proper PR review:
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The retrospective summary will contain a simplified version of this statistic.
Move open pull requests to the bottom to help seeing the workload better
The existing pull request distribution statistic shows the open pull requests at the top in the stacked bar chart. To help better see the pull request workload, we moved them to the bottom:
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Extend all single pull request tooltips with useful information
To make it less necessary to click on a tooltip to go to the pull request detail, we now show three more information pieces in the pull request tooltip: the title of the pull request, linked Jira issues and the target branch.
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Using a logarithmic Y-axis scale for the statistics
To reduce the impact of outliers, we changed to a logarithmic Y-axis scale for the statistics.
Improved line of code statistic
To better see the total amount of added/removed LOC per day, we now not only show the individual pull requests, but also the aggregated values. Additionally, you can now also see the added/removed lines in the tooltip of a single pull request:
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Improved Jira integration
To give you more context in the pull request analytics statistics, we now also show the Jira releases that occurred in the chosen time frame:
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