Tracking Git Repository Health with Metrics: Insights and Challenges

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+# Tracking Git Repository Health with Metrics: Insights and Challenges
+
+In today's fast-paced development environment, maintaining the health and performance of a Git repository is crucial yet often overlooked.
+Repositories can grow large and complex, and without proper oversight, they can severely impact the efficiency of development teams.
+In this talk, we'll dive into two essential tools—the [Git Repo Metrics Plugin](1) and the [GHS Metrics Collector Plugin](2) — which help in
+tracking the dimensions, shape, and performance of your repository.
+
+We'll explore the inherent challenges in monitoring repository growth and understanding how it affects performance.
+From slowing down CI pipelines to increasing clone and fetch times, the effects can compound 
+quickly without early detection. By leveraging these plugins, we can gain a clearer 
+understanding of the repository’s state, allowing us to make informed decisions on repository maintenance and optimization. 
+Join me as we uncover how these tools empower developers and DevOps teams to
+keep their repositories lean, fast, and scalable.
+
+[1]: https://gerrit.googlesource.com/plugins/git-repo-metrics/
+[2]: https://github.com/GerritForge/ghs-metrics-collector
+
+*[Fabio Ponciroli, Senior Engineer / GerritForge ](../speakers.md#fponciroli)*

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 | Time PDT  | Session
 |-----------|-------------------------------------------------
 | 08:30     | Breakfast / Check-in
+| 09:30     | [Tracking Git Repository Health with Metrics: Insights and Challenges](lightning-talks/what-s-up-in-your-repo.md)
 | 12:30     | Lunch & Networking
 | TBD       | [Q&A with the Gerrit maintainers](sessions/maintainers-qa.md)
 | 17:00     | End of the day

speakers.md

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 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tushar-dahibhate/)
 
+### Fabio Ponciroli - GerritForge {#fponciroli}
+
+Fabio is a Senior Software Engineer at GerritForge, where he contributes to the OpenSource Gerrit Code Review project.
+He has been involved since the beginning in the design and development of Gerrit DevOps analytics tools,
+multi-site plugin and many other.
+He has also created the Gatling protocol manager for Git which has finally provided a real E2E test suite
+for the validation of the Gerrit Code Review releases.
+He has extensive experience in working on backend systems, on-premise and cloud-based,
+with different programming languages, such as Scala, Java, NodeJS and related ecosystems.
+
+[LinkedIn](www.linkedin.com/in/fponciroli)