What’s Going On In A FOSS Project?
summary
Claims a working tool called open source prospector that pulls public data and continuously scores projects; it runs on Python/Django on OpenShift and currently inventories about 180 projects across 41 metrics. Outputs include color-coded activity, commit and bug timelines, org-email skews (Apache commits mask contributors), odd findings (Bitcoin lacks a public bug tracker or CVEs, an IRS bug report appears), and some sites block heavy crawling — the demo mostly works and produces reproducible, queryable measurements.
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chapters (35)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:30Open Source Projects
- 3:51Red Hat
- 5:03Metrics
- 7:07Objective Consistent
- 8:28Success
- 11:29Dominant
- 13:29Dominant Contributor
- 14:29OpenSSL
- 15:29Objective Data
- 16:29Social Analysis
- 17:29Noise
- 18:29Cruise Control
- 19:29The Greater Community
- 20:29Survey
- 21:29Bugs
- 22:29What do I need
- 23:29OpenHubNet
- 24:29BitterGia
- 25:29OpenHatch
- 26:29The Elephant
- 27:29How standards proliferate
- 28:29Opensource Prospector
- 29:29Demo
- 31:29Visual clues
- 32:29Comparing metrics
- 33:29Have a web page
- 35:29Comets
- 36:29DNF
- 38:29Questions
- 39:29Data Collection
- 40:29Constraints
- 41:29Other Questions
- 42:29Initial Objective
- 43:29IRS
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