Warning herdstat is work in progress and neither feature complete nor tested thoroughly.

herdstat is a tool for analyzing and visualizing metrics of Open Source projects hosted on GitHub. As of today its functionality is limited to generate GitHub-style contribution graphs for individual repository or complete GitHub organisations.

The herdstat-generated contribution graph for the herdstat organization looks like this:

herdstat is composed of the words herd, which means a group of people who usually have a common bond, and stat, which is a well-known Linux command line utility that displays detailed information about files. So replacing file with open source community (= herd) does the trick in understanding why we have chosen that name.

The herdstat organization currently contains the following repositories:

• herdstat hosts the herdstat CLI that implements most of herdstat's functionality.
• herdstat-action contains the codebase for the herdstat GitHub action.
• herdstat-example is a sample repository showcasing basic usage of the herdstat GitHub action.