[Practitioner Guide]: Assessing Maintainability and Sustainability at Scale #145
Description
Practitioner Guide Topic (1 - 3 words)
Assessing Maintainability and Sustainability at Scale
Is this a getting started guide or a more advanced guide for experienced users?
Advanced / Expert
Primary Metrics (2 - 4 metrics for Getting Started Guides)
Primary Metrics:
- Backlog Management Index (metric to be defined)
- Review Efficiency Index (metric to be defined)
- Time to Close
- Contributor Absence Factor
- Contributors
- License Declared
- Copyright Owner Concentration (metric to be defined)
Why is this topic important? How will this help people improve their open source project and / or community? Who will benefit from this guide?
Software supply chains often rely on under-maintained open source projects that pose risk. This metrics model identifies risk factors that can point to under-maintained projects, allowing us to analyze a software supply chain at scale.
How would you like to see this guide developed?
I am interested in using this guide, but I do not want to write it myself
Additional Notes
Here is the doc where this metric will be developed: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ubbVkeKuhkCXWxJj5vgeSgyIlUJ2D-MaJEBUlyQwd8k/edit?usp=sharing
@GeorgLink is driving this guide.