• Introducing Materialized Views into Augur: Performance + Easy to Extend!

    Accelerating Development tl;dr: Let’s take a 251 line query and make it into a super-fast 1 line materialized view. Augur works closely with CHAOSS partners and our contributor community to: Make it easier to build new functions into Augur and To increase front-end performance, whether it’s our front end, your front end, or the interface…


  • 2022/03/20 Installation Video, Part 1!

    This is on Ubuntu, and it covers all the steps hereby talking you through it. The video is succinct, and I think it will reveal places where folks may have gotten stuck! Stay tuned for part II! #GSOC2022


  • Augur’s Full Physical Data Model

    The CHAOSS Project needs implemented metrics to help us figure out whether or not we are reaching our goals and answering the questions we have about open source health and sustainability. Augur is a critical part of that effort. To increase shared knowledge, below is a full, browse-able large SVG file of the Augur Physical…


  • Under the Hood with Augur’s Data

    Augur is a Community Health Analytics for Open Source Software software tool that collects, organizes, and validates the completeness of open source software trace data from GitLab, GitHub, and any standalone Git repository. There are four parts to Augur that make its rich collection of data available: Augur itself, which is actually two parts: Data…


  • Helpful and Useful – The Open Source Software Metrics Holy Grail

    1 Introduction My colleague Matt Germonprez recently hit me and around 50 other people at CHAOSSCON North America (2018) with this observation: A lot of times we get really great answers to the wrong questions. Matt explained this phenomena as ”type III error”, an allusion to the more well known statistical phenomena of type I…