Key Metrics

The Scoutflo Health Score evaluates open-source products based on five key metrics:

1. Security:

This metric evaluates the project's efforts to safeguard its code and data from external attacks and known vulnerabilities, ensuring proactive security measures during the software development process.

Criteria: Assessment of security measures ensuring the codebase's resilience against external threats and maintaining data integrity.

Scoring Mechanism:

• High Score: Implementation of robust security measures, regular audits, and prompt resolution of identified vulnerabilities.

• Low Score: Weak security measures, absence of regular audits, and delayed response to identified vulnerabilities.

Significance: High security underscores the codebase's integrity, protects user data, and enhances the overall trustworthiness of the project.

1. Code Quality & Maintenance:

This metric reflects the project's maintenance practices and internal development efforts to maintain high-quality code, ensuring the stability of the product through regular updates and bug fixes.

Criteria: Evaluation of internal processes and structure to enhance code quality and ensure systematic ongoing maintenance.

Scoring Mechanism:

• High Score: Well-maintained codebase, strict adherence to coding standards, and efficient processes for continual maintenance.

• Low Score: Poorly maintained codebase, lack of coding standards, and neglect in ongoing maintenance.

Significance: Code quality directly influences project stability, performance, and ease of future development.

1. Support (Responsiveness to Issues):

This metric provides an overall assessment of how well the project handles user-reported issues, engages in code review processes, and provides timely and effective support to its community, making the product more attractive and reliable.

Criteria: Examination of the internal team’s responsiveness to issues, encompassing average resolution time and the efficiency of the code review process.

Scoring Mechanism:

• High Score: Timely issue resolution, efficient code review processes, and proactive engagement with the community.

• Low Score: Delayed issue resolution, inefficiency in code review, and inadequate community engagement.

Significance: Responsive support enhances user satisfaction and contributes to a positive community experience.

1. Community Activeness:

This metric assesses the project's community engagement, diversity of contributors, release frequency, and growth in the number of active contributors, reflecting the vibrancy and long-term sustainability of the project.

Criteria: Evaluation of the vibrancy and engagement level of the company’s community, considering social presence, GitHub stars, forks, active contributors, and diversity.

Scoring Mechanism:

• High Score: Active and diverse community, robust social presence, and substantial project engagement on platforms like GitHub.

• Low Score: Limited community engagement, weak social presence, and low GitHub activity.

Significance: A vibrant community fosters project growth, collaboration, and long-term sustainability.

1. Business:

This metric evaluates additional commercial aspects, including the availability of a commercial cloud version, customer support, investment details, and future product roadmap, providing insights into comprehensive solutions and services offered by the project.

Criteria: Assessment of the product's readiness for business use, including factors like commercial offerings, dedicated customer support, and transparent roadmaps.

Scoring Mechanism:

• High Score: Well-prepared for business use, clear commercial offerings, dedicated support, and a transparent roadmap.

• Low Score: Limited commercial offerings, lack of dedicated support, and an unclear or absent roadmap.

Significance: Business readiness indicates the project's suitability for enterprise-level adoption.

Elements

The Scoutflo Health Score evaluates open-source products based on five key metrics, each comprising specific elements. These elements are -

Security	Binary Artifacts.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Branch Protection.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Dangerous Workflow.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	CI Tests	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Fuzzing.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Licenses.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Security Policy.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Pinned Dependencies.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
Code Quality & Maintenance	Maintained.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Code Review.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Token Permissions.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Vulnerabilities.	-	0-10	OpenSSF
Support	Average Issues Resolution Time Score	Days	0-10	GitHub APIs
	Average Closed Issues/Total Created Issues Score	Ratio	0-10	GitHub APIs
	Average Review Closing Time Score	Days	0-10	GitHub APIs
	Average Reviews Closed/No. of Reviews Score	Ratio	0-10	GitHub APIs
Community Activeness	Contributors' Diversity	-	0-10	OpenSSF
	Release Frequency	Days	0-10	GitHub APIs
	Monthly Growth in the Number of Active Contributors, Stars, Forks, and Issues.	%	0-10	GitHub APIs
	Social Links (LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Mastodon)	-	YES or NO	Manually
	Communication Channels (Slack, Discord, Forums, etc.)	-	YES or NO	Manually
Business Score	Commercial Cloud offerings	-	YES or NO	Manually
	Investment details	-	YES or NO	Manually
	Roadmap	-	YES or NO	Manually