Minisymposium Presentation

Sustaining open source projects over the long-term can be a challenge. Project leaders and contributors are busy people who don’t always have the time to focus on growing a community and maintaining their software. Using metrics is one way to help research and scientific software projects identify potential issues and identify areas where they can improve their project to make it more sustainable over the long-term. Being proactive about improving sustainability before it becomes a crisis can help make research and scientific software more sustainable and reliable for all of us. This talk will identify several sustainability metrics, discuss how to interpret those metrics, and provide ideas for improving sustainability issues identified using the metrics. The audience will walk away with a better understanding of how to use metrics to proactively improve the sustainability of their research and scientific software projects.