Community

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. ...

I wrote a new post on Google blog on the momentum behind the Knative project. How it the community reached another adoption milestone, doubling the number of its contributors. Also, another data point underscoring the Knative momentum is the month-over-month contributions which have increased over 45% since the 0.1 release, now representing more than a dozen of different companies. ...