ODI Lunchtime Lecture: Building a FOSS Search Engine

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1. Building a FOSS Search Engine ODI Lunchtime Lecture and how this can lead to a stronger, safer and sustainable open source ecosystem.
2. Ben Nickolls OHAI ‘The Other Guy’ @ libraries.io
3. Andrew Nesbitt Small Title Text Subtitle text
4. Libraries.io Subtitle text
5. Yet Another Search Engine? …Really?
6. GitHub Search Small Title Text Subtitle text
7. FOASS Small Title Text Subtitle text
8. Volkswagen Small Title Text Subtitle text
9. ⭐ Stars on GitHub are a measure of attention, more akin to a Like on Facebook than a measure of quality or usage Arfon Smith, 2016
10. RubyGems Search Small Title Text Subtitle text
11. Travis Small Title Text Subtitle text
12. Download counts are a good indicator of the low cost of IO in networks Me, just now. ⬇
13. 'Most Popular'? What do we mean, when we say
15. Long hard think… So who does search well?
17. Small Title Text
18. PageSourceRank Because naming things is hard
19. Image © Clusteric
21. Inspired Small Title Text Subtitle text
22. Have an open licence? Does this project Can I actually use it in my project?
23. Easy to install? Is the project
24. Have an active community? Does the project And am I likely to get support if I need it?
25. Actually maintaining it? Are the maintainers And will they accept my fixes?
26. Secure? Is the project Err… that’s a difficult one.
27. Where do we start?
28. Package Managers Subtitle text
29. Description Source Repo Homepage Licence(s) Keywords Name Binary Versions Dependencies Meh Better Best
31. Maintainers Contributors #Commits #Issues Readme Changelog Templates Licence(s) Last commit Last PR Time to merge Project Community Activity
32. All The Datas 2.24m unique projects (form a package manager) 8.44m Versions 23m Repositories (from GH, GL, BB) 85.6m Dependencies
33. ⚠
34. SPDX Small Title Text Subtitle text
35. Major.Minor.Patch SEMVER Breaking. Non Braking. Bugs.
36. Changelog.md WTF just happened?
37. Missing...
38. Wiki FAQs Chat Comments Static analysis Performance Code style Test coverage Installations Deployments Code Quality Support Activity
39. Why bother?
40. To raise the quality of all software Kind of a mission statement, kind of a hope.
41. Discoverability Themes Improving search facilities
42. Search Small Title Text Subtitle text
43. Bower Small Title Text Subtitle text
44. Maintainability Making maintenance of open source simpler
45. Notifications Small Title Text Subtitle text
46. Usage stats Small Title Text Subtitle text
47. Sustainability Wait, what?
49. Nadia Small Title Text Subtitle text
50. Roads and Bridges Small Title Text Subtitle text
51. Shared, public code makes up the digital infrastructure of our society today. In the face of unprecedented demand, the costs of not supporting our digital infrastructure are numerous. No individual company or organisation is incentivised to address the public good problem alone. In order to support our digital infrastructure, we must find ways to work together. Roads & Bridges: Abridged “
52. FOSS Sustainability How can Libraries.io help?
54. /Usage Helping individual projects understand just how important they are
55. /Digital-Infrastructure The most depended upon projects in OSS*
56. /Unseen-Infrastructure Highly depended upon projects with little ‘attention’
57. /Bus-Factor Highly depended upon projects with fewer than five contributors
58. /Help-Wanted Projects that need your support
59. JFDI.
60. /api
61. ⬇ /data*
62. Join us Libraries.io Docs.Libraries.io GitHub.com/librariesio
63. Sustain OS Small Title Text Subtitle text