go-github — Engineering Performance
4 engineers all time · Jan 2025 – Sep 2026 · built 2026-09-08 · GitHub
Performance snapshot
Today's rolling 90-day reading for go-github, compared with the start of the series. Pick a window to move that comparison point.
Avg. perf / dev / mo
+72.2%
0.16 → 0.28 ETV
Active engineers
+33.3%
3.0 → 4.0
Features
−4.7pp
31.7% → 27.0%
vs. Google
0.11x
0.17x → 0.11x · −89% below
go-github vs. Google
Per-engineer ETV for go-github against Google as a whole. Both lines are 90-day rolling averages scaled to a 30-day month, so they share one axis and can be read against each other at any point. Pick a window to zoom the chart to it.
Performance Composition
Each month's output split by type of work: Features (new value), Maintenance (sustaining systems), Tests, Docs, and Fixes (rework). The yellow line is output per engineer, so when it rises each engineer is delivering more, whatever the team size did. Unit: Engineering Throughput Value (ETV).
Engineering capacity
Effective engineers behind go-github, against its pre-AI baseline. Each subject has its own: go-github's is 0.16 ETV / dev / mo, its first reading in April 2025. Per-engineer ETV divided by that gives a capacity multiple, and that multiple applied to the engineers active in the trailing 90 days turns it into engineer-equivalents. The line is the real headcount, so the gap between line and area is what the leverage is worth. Because each baseline is its own, every subject opens at 1.0x on its first day: multiples measure improvement and are not comparable between subjects.
Knowledge concentration
How dependent is this repo on a small number of engineers? Higher top-1 share = higher key-person risk.
Glenn Lewis owns 40.9 % of commits.
Behind the numbers
Written summary of the work completed each month.
No monthly reports available yet.
Top engineers
Most impactful commits
Top 10 by ETV in the all-time window.
- 2.0ETVfeat!: Refactor client constructor to use options pattern (#4201) BREAKING CHANGE: Clients are now constructed with a nicer builder pattern. See docs for details.Steve Hipwell · d9f99978 · 2026-05-14
- 1.6ETVPrefer `%v` over `%d`,`%s` and add `fmtpercentv` custom linter (#3756)Glenn Lewis · 45057719 · 2025-10-06
- 1.4ETVrefactor: Use `testJSONBody` helper for request body assertions in tests (#4183)Dhananjay Mishra · 0a16e22e · 2026-05-01
- 1.3ETVfeat: Add support for remaining Codespaces APIs (#3886)Dhananjay Mishra · 2c83bd6b · 2025-12-19
- 1.2ETVfeat: Add iterators for methods with `After` (#4007)Oleksandr Redko · 4d2c2a52 · 2026-02-13
- 1.0ETVfix: Add validation for nil inputs in various services (#3636)Oleksandr Redko · d88d5295 · 2025-07-24
- 0.9ETVchore: Improve `testJSONMarshal` (#4042)Oleksandr Redko · 5158bb8e · 2026-02-27
- 0.9ETVchore: Use `any` instead of `interface{}` (#3584)Oleksandr Redko · 3c5408e7 · 2025-06-03
- 0.9ETVfeat!: Add support for enterprise rulesets (#3417) BREAKING CHANGE: `Create*Ruleset` and `Update*Ruleset` now pass `ruleset` parameter by-value instead of by-reference. Fixes: #3416.Steve Hipwell · a61e9cfe · 2025-01-09
- 0.6ETVrefactor: fix revive.unused-parameter lint issues (#3603)Oleksandr Redko · 94932781 · 2025-06-25