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id : contributorsFromOrgOrCompany
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lifecycle : experimental
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short : Checks whether a project has a contributions from users associated with a company or organization.
motivation : >
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This probe tries to determine if the project has recent contributors from multiple organizations.
For some projects, having a diverse group of contributors is an indicator of project health.
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implementation : >
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The probe looks at the Company field on the user profile for authors of recent commits.
To receive the highest score, the project must have had contributors from at least 3 different companies in the last 30 commits.
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outcome :
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- If the project has no contributing organizations, the probe returns 1 OutcomeFalse
- If the project has contributing organizations, the probe returns 1 OutcomeTrue per organization.
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remediation :
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onOutcome : False
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effort : High
text :
- Encourage community-driven contributions to your project.
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- Ask contributors to join their respective organizations, if they have not already.
- Otherwise, there is no remediation for this probe; it simply provides insight into how many organizations have contributed so that you can make a trust-based decision based on that information.
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ecosystem :
languages :
- all
clients :
- github
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- gitlab