Abstract
With the development of open source community, through the interaction of developers, the collaborative development of software, and the sharing of software tools, the formation of open source software ecosystem has matured. Natural ecosystems provide ecological services on which human beings depend. Maintaining a healthy natural ecosystem is a necessity for the sustainable development of mankind. Similarly, maintaining a healthy ecosystem of open source software is also a prerequisite for the sustainable development of open source communities, such as GitHub. This paper takes GitHub as an example to analyze the health condition of open source ecosystem and, also, it is a research area in Symmetry. Firstly, the paper presents the healthy definition of GitHub open source ecosystem health and, then, according to the main components of natural ecosystem health, the paper proposes the health indicators and health indicators evaluation method. Based on the above, the GitHub ecosystem health prediction method is proposed. By analyzing the projects and data collected in GitHub, it is found that, using the proposed evaluation indicators and method, we can analyze the healthy development trend of the GitHub ecosystem and contribute to the stability of ecosystem development.
Department(s)
Computer Science
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/sym11020144
Rights Information
© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords
Ecosystem health, Evaluation method, GitHub, Open source software, Symmetry
Publication Date
2-1-2019
Recommended Citation
Liao, Zhifang, Mengjie Yi, Yan Wang, Shengzong Liu, Hui Liu, Yan Zhang, and Yun Zhou. "Healthy or not: A way to predict ecosystem health in Github." Symmetry 11, no. 2 (2019): 144.
Journal Title
Symmetry
