GitHub Survivor is a simple bug dashboard that shows an overview of bugs in a GitHub-hosted repo. We use it at 99designs to keep an eye on the bug count and remind ourselves to close bugs.

It's easy to forget about bugs when you're knee-deep in feature development. This dashboard is a good way to keep bugs on people's minds, and to show at-a-glance information about the current bug situation.

GitHub Survivor scrapes your bug data using the GitHub API and stores it in your local Mongo DB for subsequent querying. It shows, at a glance:

• Top/bottom bug closers for the current reporting period (week, month or sprint)
• Current open bug count
• Net difference in open bugs since the last reporting period
• Charts (yay!):
  • Number of bugs opened/closed for the last 12 reporting periods
  • Number of open bugs over the last 12 reporting periods

There are bug trackers that provide this kind of data, but we wanted something fun that integrates with our existing bug tracking solution. (GitHub issues are pretty rudimentary, but they integrate nicely with pull requests, commits, etc.)

Requirements:

• Python >= 2.7
• virtualenv
• MongoDB
• lessc
• Make

This command might satisfy the above dependencies on Ubuntu:

$ sudo apt-get install python2.7 python-virtualenv mongodb lessc make

$ git clone https://github.com/99designs/githubsurvivor.git /path/to/survivor
$ cd /path/to/survivor
$ bin/setup
$ $EDITOR config.py

$ bin/runtask sync

You'll probably want to run this periodically, e.g. in an hourly cron job.

$ bin/serve

Stylesheets are LESS files. Run make css to regenerate CSS from LESS sources.

MIT; see LICENSE