Epigraph

Download all issues from a GitHub repo and plot opened/closed activity over time, and measures the accumulated backlog.

Project layout

get_issues.sh

fetches all issues via gh api and writes issues.json

plot_issues.py

reads the JSON and plots weekly/rolling activity + cumulative backlog

README.org

this file

Prereqs

• GitHub CLI (gh)
• jq
• Python 3 with pandas and matplotlib (e.g., in a venv)

# (optional) venv
python3 -m venv .venv && . .venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip pandas matplotlib

Usage

1. Log in to GitHub (once):

gh auth login

1. Update your local database of issues:

chmod +x get_issues.sh
./get_issues.sh     # creates issues.json

1. Plot:

chmod +x ./plot_issues.py
./plot_issues.py

You can also edit some variables at the top of ./plot_issues.py to modify the output, including RESAMPLE and ROLLWIN.

Example output