Tag: Open source
Making Sense of Open Source Projects
Assessing who contributes to an open source project is not as easy as running a few queries against the GitHub API. Yet, as we continue to see, that doesn’t stop people from trying.
Comparing Corporate Open Source Contributions on GitHub Organizations
Open Hub data indicates that 61 percent of the most active organizations on GitHub organizations are commercial enterprises. Most of these companies are working on projects where almost all of the contributors are also employees.
Price of an Open Source Ecosystem
Last week we estimated that development costs for the Kubernetes ecosystem were over $120 million. Many people saw this as a bargain, while others questioned the underlying methodology. For example, using lines of code is by general consensus a flawed metric. Multiple readers also asked about the […]
How Many Company Developers Should Work on Open Source?
Survey data was combined with LinkedIn stats to get a perspective on how many employees contribute to open source projects.
Developing a Methodology for Analyzing Open Source Communities
To create the first table above, data about contributors was collected using a tool called Blockspring that accessed the GitHub API to pull information about contributors to specific repositories.