Give Credit Where Credit Is Due: Identify Contributors From Commit Messages

Want to identify all contributors who helped with the source code of an open source project but find yourself limited by what is officially captured in the git-log? Maybe your project, like the Linux Kernel, keeps track of who helped with patches by adding their name to the commit message, but tools don’t usually understand how to analyze this properly.

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What OSPO managers lack today when using marketing stats (but software development analytics gives)

Intelligent open source means taking care of your OSS ecosystem. Being a data-driven OSPO team is important to know about the OSS projects a company releases, contributes or uses. This blog post focuses on statistics for an important task of OSPO teams. What are the common pitfalls when analyzing an OSS Ecosystem and how to solve them?

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