Metrics to assess risk in open source libraries are becoming more important. We need these tools and techniques to evaluate and mitigate the potential risks associated with using third-party open source software libraries in our own software applications. So, this blog post describes seven important metrics to evaluate this risk from an open source community perspective.
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With a heavy heart, we are discontinuing the paid Cauldron Cloud service. We continue to offer the free Caudron.io service, but for more advanced metrics needs, we are focusing our efforts on Bitergia Analytics.
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Welcome to the fourth chapter of the Metric of the Month: Leaving Developers. In the last chapter, we talked about Attracted Developers, a metric that helps us to understand the flow of new contributors joining a project or community. In this chapter, we will fully understand the contributors by studying the people leaving the project.
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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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Welcome to the third chapter of the Metric of the Month, the first one for the new year! In the last chapter, we talked about the Pony Factor, a metric about code contributions to projects. In this chapter, we will study how many new contributors are attracted to the project with the Attracted Developers metric.
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We are excited to share our latest developments in the Bitergia Analytics Platform. We are finally unveiling the new identities management user interface with an all-new and improved user experience to help you identify community contributors. Let’s dive in!
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At Bitergia, we’re always committed to our beloved customers, always trying to offer the best of our work and to help to level up their software development analytics. Thus, this blog post wanted to summarize the general satisfaction with Bitergia Analytics tool, the usage, facilities, and the relationship working with us.
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Bitergia continues this month with some events around Open Source, and in this blog post we’re summarizing our participation in different events around the world, like All Things Open in the USA, OSPOlogy in Sweden, and EclipseCon in Germany, lets dive in!
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Welcome to the first chapter of the Metric of the Month! We’re glad to start this series talking about metrics. We expect to show you a complete guide for a different metric each month so you can understand more about them. We start this series with our favorite one, the Elephant Factor.
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The 0.5 release of BAP -Bitergia Analytics Platform- is now available since September 28. In this blog post, we want to share new features and how changes can affect your work.
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