A tool for analysing the bus factor of open-source projects on npm and their dependencies.
For example:
$ npm i -g bus-factor
$ busfactor preact
preact has 1 author(s) and 3 maintainer(s).
Authors:
- Jason Miller <jason@developit.ca>
Maintainers:
- developit <jason@developit.ca>
- lukeed <luke@lukeed.com>
- marvinhagemeister <marvin@marvinhagemeister.de>
Many projects are under-maintained, often for want of funding. This tool is intended to help identify those projects in order to organize labor and materials to support them.
Use npm:
$ npm i -g bus-factor
$ busfactor -h
busfactor <project> [options]
...
$ busfactor --help
busfactor <project>
Tool for analysing the bus factor of projects and their dependencies.
Positionals:
project Name of the project on NPM. [string]
Options:
--registry, -r URL to the NPM registry to use.
[default: "https://skimdb.npmjs.com/registry"]
--json, -j Output analysis as JSON. Useful for aggregation.
[default: false]
--recursive, -R Analyse project dependencies too. [default: false]
-h, --help Show help [boolean]
-v, --version Show version number [boolean]
To work on the source code, download it with git and build it with Node.js:
$ git clone https://github.com/garbados/bus-factor-js
$ cd bus-factor-js
$ npm install
To run the test suite, use npm test:
$ npm test
All contributions are welcome but will be moderated at the discretion of the project's maintainers. This section will update as governance policies emerge and evolve.
To report a bug or request a feature, please file and issue.
To share a patch, please submit a pull request.
FAQs
Tool for analysing the bus factor of projects and their dependencies.
We found that bus-factor demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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