DevPulse: Community Health Analytics for the Rest of Us
If you maintain an open source project, you’ve probably wondered: who’s actually contributing? Are we retaining contributors or burning through a revolving door? Is one person carrying the whole project? These questions matter. Commercial platforms answer these questions well. They do come with trade-offs though. Hosted analytics means sending your potentially private repo contributor data to a third party. Pricing models often assume enterprise budgets. And for a maintainer running a project with a handful of repos and no funding, the friction of setting up yet another SaaS integration is enough to never bother. ...