Project Road Map
This issue is the project roadmap.
This project is an investigation into open source software development activities and sustainability. The project will examine software project development over time though the lens of diversity by looking at contributor attrition rates in conjunction with their demographics.
The project will have two phases: investigating the lifecycle of open source software and the number of diverse contributors to the software. Exploring the intersection of these two elements will offer insight into what makes open source software sustainable (or not) in the long run, and the nature of the role an inclusive community plays in that sustainability. This will be done using github archive data. Operating in a way that facilitates openness is also a goal and will take a different form at every milestone.
See the milestones below:
Milestone 1: Step Up
This milestone includes setting up a computing environment, retrieving the data, and formulating a hypothesis.
Actions include:
- a literature review
- set up a virtual environment with necessary software
- downloading from data source
Open Practices:
- record steps taken to access the data set and environment needed to analyze data
- have links to all necessary materials and tools
- post all to github project
Milestone 2: Data Exploration
This milestone includes reading in data, processing the data into the necessary format, data cleaning, and understanding the data well as possible.
Actions include:
- Reading in the data
- Reformatting and cleaning the data
- Data visualization
Open Practices:
- Push notebook to this project
- record code, comments, and other details to notebook
Milestone 3: Data Analysis
This milestone includes creating a data analysis plan, running analysis on the data, and summarizing results.
Actions include:
- deciding on analysis techniques
- executing data analysis on data
- writing summary report
Open Practices:
- Push notebook to this project
- record code, comments, and other details to notebook
Project board:
https://github.com/samwalkow/Diversity_and_Open_Source_Software_Sustainability/projects/1