Analyzing what really matters in open-source projects as a busy dev is a bit
cumbersome.
While GitHub features like Watch are helpful, they don't do much justice on
providing stats on what the community has been up to.
OSSCooking is an attempt to provide such information removing any un-necessary clutter.
What matters?
- Discussions: The balance b/w open & closed bugs, feature proposals & who starts these discussions among users (aka you & me), contributors & maintainers.
- Releases: Releases describe that the stakeholders, i.e contributors & maintainers are confident about shipping the software.
- Funding: Are the maintainers & contributors of non-organisation & foundation owned projects getting paid?
- Security: Are you aware of the security vulnerabilities in the software you use?
And much more!
What doesn't?
- Code: The code may be rewritten or patched countless times, but the conversations about how the community envisions the software's behavior hold greater significance.
- Stars: A way to bookmark a project or show appreciation, in either case, it doesn't tell you anything informative.
- Forks: Forks may indicate interest, but they don’t necessarily mean active contributions or meaningful improvements.
Did you know?
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Contribution Lead Time
Average time it takes to merge a contribution to the project's main branch. The metric is gathered from the most recent 100 contributions via github.
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