Key Metrics
The Scoutflo Health Score evaluates open-source products based on five key metrics:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Branch Protection.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Dangerous Workflow.
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0-10
OpenSSF
CI Tests
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0-10
OpenSSF
Fuzzing.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Licenses.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Security Policy.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Pinned Dependencies.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Code Quality & Maintenance
Maintained.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Code Review.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Token Permissions.
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0-10
OpenSSF
Vulnerabilities.
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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
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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)
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YES or NO
Manually
Communication Channels (Slack, Discord, Forums, etc.)
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YES or NO
Manually
Business Score
Commercial Cloud offerings
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YES or NO
Manually
Investment details
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YES or NO
Manually
Roadmap
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YES or NO
Manually
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