Alambic

• About
• Plugins
• Setup
• Documentation
• Development

Stack Overflow

The Stack Overflow plugin retrieves Stack Overflow questions and answers related to the project tag, and provides a summary, a list of hot questions and recommendations to ensure a fine support to users on the web site.

Check the plugin Perl documentation in the perldoc section.

---

Basic information

• ID: StackOverflow
• Abilities: metrics, figs, recs, viz
• Description: Retrieves questions and answers related to a specific tag from the Stack Overflow question/answer web site.
• Parameters:
  • so_keyword A Stack Overflow tag to retrieve questions from.
  • proxy If a proxy is required to access the remote resource of this plugin, please provide its URL here. A blank field means no proxy, and the default keyword uses the proxy from environment variables, see the online documentation about proxies for more details. Example: https://user:pass@proxy.mycorp:3777.

---

Provides

Metrics

• SO_QUESTIONS_VOL_5Y
• SO_ANSWERS_VOL_5Y
• SO_ANSWER_RATE_5Y
• SO_VOTES_VOL_5Y
• SO_VIEWS_VOL_5Y
• SO_ASKERS_5Y

Figures

• hudson_pie.html A pie chart of the status of jobs.

Recommendations

• SO_IMPROVE_SUPPORT
• SO_WATCH_QUESTION

Visualisation

• Stack Overflow

---

Notes:

• The queried time range spans the last 5 years.
• The Stack Overflow API uses daily quotas. Default is 300. If the Alambic instance exceeds this volume a OAuth-based setup is required.

Dependencies:

This plugin requires for execution a working R environment, and the following packages:

• ggplot2
• snowballC
• wordcloud
• tm
• xtable
• xts

---

Screenshot