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Exosphere Sustainability Goals, Metrics, and Measurement

Overview: What does sustainability look like?

A sustainable open-source software project:

  • Is responsive to changing needs of its community
  • Has maintainers who set strategic direction to meet community needs, and ensure the long-term health of the project
  • Has project members regularly engaged and available to respond to community requests
  • Recruits new project members to compensate for attrition
  • Grows existing project members toward becoming maintainers
  • Maintains a secure, trustworthy open source product

Goals and Metrics

Responsiveness to Community Needs

Metric: Response time to triage and respond to new issues.

  • Current: Need to measure
  • Target: 90% of issues reviewed within 2 working days
  • Plan to measure:

Metric: Response time to review merge requests (code contributions).

  • Current: Need to measure
  • Target: 90% of merge requests reviewed within 1 working week
  • Plan to measure:

Sustainable Maintainership

Goal: Exosphere should have a sufficient number of maintainers.

Metric: Number of maintainers.

Sustainable Contributorship

Goal: Exosphere should have regular contributors covering all of the core Exosphere Contributor Skills.

Metric: Percentage of contributor skills covered by regular contributors.

  • Current: 100%
  • Target: 100%
  • Plan to measure:
    • Choose a time period to measure (e.g. previous 6 calendar months)
    • Make a list of people who caused activity on the GitLab project
    • For each skill in the Contributor Skills table, determine whether one of more of the above contributors possess that skill
    • Take the percentage of covered skills

Project Security Posture

Metric: OpenSSF Best Practices.