The result is based on ratio of number of commits and code additions from initial and final time ranges.
Initial time range – from 5 Jul, 2023 to 5 Oct, 2023
Final time range – from 5 Apr, 2024 to 5 Jul, 2024
It is basically a number of most active contributors responsible for 80% of contributions.
Bus factor tries to assess "What happens if a key member of the team is hit by a bus?". The more there are key members, the lower the risk.
The Genymobile/scrcpy repository has a bus factor of 1.
High risk, a lot of knowledge concentrated in a few people
Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024
The Genymobile/scrcpy repository on GitHub is home to the open-source project called scrcpy
, which stands for "Screen Copy". This application provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP). It does not require root access and works on GNU/Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Key features of scrcpy
include:
To use scrcpy
, users need to connect their device to a computer via USB or wirelessly (requires Android 5.0 or later), enable USB debugging in the developer options, and then run the scrcpy
command in the terminal.
Peak on the repository structure, it contains folders and files. Folders such as app
, server
, and SCRCPY
when investigated provide more specific functionality about the application, while files such as BUILD.md
, CONTRIBUTING.md
, CHANGELOG.md
, README.md
describe how to contribute to the project, installation processes, changes to the project, and a general overview of the project, respectively.
For users who want to contribute to this open-source project, they should read the CONTRIBUTING.md
file, which provides detailed information on how to contribute to the project.
Being open-source, any developer can fork and contribute to scrcpy
. Currently, the project has over 40,000 stars on GitHub, indicating its popularity and utility within the developer community.