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For a more transparent governance of open source
A thorough analysis of open source projects in GitHub shows a massive lack of transparency. Some thoughts on why and how to fix this and evolve towards a more transparent governance in open source
Libraries.io – Metadata on open source projects, repositories and dependencies
Libraries.io monitors over 2 million open source libraries/packages from 36 package managers (npm, maven, Pypi, etc) and gathers relevant information about each of them, including their license, releases, contributors and dependencies.
Gitana: A Software Project Inspector on top of a relational database
Integration of scattered software project data (Git, Bugzilla, GitHub, Slack…) into a central relational database to perform all kinds of cross-cutting data analysis with standard SQL
24 Pull Requests – Giving back little gifts of code for Christmas
Great initiative to encourage people to contribute back to all those open source projects they are using for free
How to anonymize your GitHub activity
There are quite a few reasons to want to hide your GitHub activity. Here we show you several ways to be in GitHub under an incognito mode
Development process in GitHub – Basic concepts (Infographic)
Have you ever tried to explain to a non-techie how software development works in GitHub (with the concepts of fork, branch, pull request, merge,…)?. Not easy. We hope our infographic can help.
101wiki: One system – more than 100 alternative software implementations
The idea behind 101 wiki is simple, let's try to have as many implementations as possible for the same scenario, a simple Human Resource Management System (the so-called 101companies System) so that we can help people (teachers, students, developers, software...
All we have learned about software development by mining GitHub (plus some concerns)
Mining information on software projects hosted on GitHub can reveal a lot of useful information on how software projects (and the community behind them) should be managed to optimize your chances of success
15 wisdom pearls on Software Architecture for Open Source projects – AOSA book
Get some advice on software architecture based on the experience of the authors in developing large open source software projects
Very Large Community-based Software Development – ERC proposal
Following up on our introductory post in the topic I'm now "releasing" the full B1 Research Proposal document I submitted to the ERC Consolidator Grant 2016 focused on the study of open source communities. If you want full details of the proposal (either because you...
Transparency and Democracy in open source: not what you thought
Did you think that most open source projects were the result of a democratic participation of all members? And that the decision process (and its results) were fully transparent? You may want to think twice.