Open Source Project Health Monitor

Indicator of project health (i.e. is this project dead?)

Features

• Accept Github repo and pull down metrics
  • Stars
  • Forks
  • Followers
  • Commit stats
  • Number of contributors
  • Issue stats
• Calculate aggregate "health" or "activity" score
• Persist scores (database)
• Generate "badge" with score

Admin/Ops

• Setup Github app credentials
• Setup Heroku app
• Travis CI
• Automatically list "production" builds as releases
• Good test coverage

Setup

1. Get code: git clone https://github.com/140proof/OSS-health.git
2. Get dependencies: go get -t
3. Build: go build
4. Run: ./OSS-health

Deploy (Heroku)

1. Install Heroku Toolbelt
2. Configure Heroku: heroku login
3. Add Heroku App as Git Remote: heroku git:remote -a oss-health
4. Deploy: git push heroku master

Notes: In order to deploy a different branch you must use git push heroku <other_branch>:master

Resources

• Github API
• Github Go Package
• Go OAuth2 Package