Contribution activity and bus factor of netbox-community/netbox

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Stable ✅

Constant contribution activity

Why netbox-community/netbox is stable?

The result is based on ratio of number of commits from initial and final time ranges.

Initial time range – from 14 Aug, 2023 to 14 Nov, 2023

Final time range – from 15 May, 2024 to 14 Aug, 2024

Additions and deletions stats are not available for this repository due to GitHub API limitations.

Data calculated on 14 Aug, 2024

Bus factor of netbox-community/netbox

What is Bus factor?

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 netbox-community/netbox repository has a bus factor of 2.

High risk, a lot of knowledge concentrated in a few people

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The netbox-community/netbox is a popular GitHub repository for a project called NetBox. It's an open-source web application designed to help manage and document computer networks.

Initially developed by the network engineering team at DigitalOcean, NetBox was developed specifically to address the needs of network and infrastructure engineers. Some of its key features include IP address management (IPAM), device interface tracking, data center infrastructure management (DCIM), rack management, and more.

NetBox allows for detailed record keeping, enabling you to track not just how many IP addresses and devices you have, but also how they're configured and how they're changing over time. It's designed to be easily extended and integrated with other systems. NetBox has an active community of contributors and a solid base of users who rely on it for their daily operations.

It's written in Python and uses the Django web framework, and is designed with scalability in mind. The Github repository includes not only the source code, but also examples of how to deploy NetBox using Docker for ease of installation.

Any developer or network engineer with a good understanding of Python, Django, or web-based application development can use the NetBox platform.