Contribution activity and bus factor of nvm-sh/nvm

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Evolving ✨

Contribution activity is growing

Why nvm-sh/nvm is evolving?

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

From 1 to 1 commits per week

From 15 to 35 additions per week

133%

From 3 to 9 deletions per week

200%

Data calculated on 5 Jul, 2024

Bus factor of nvm-sh/nvm

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 nvm-sh/nvm repository has a bus factor of 27.

Low risk, knowledge is well distributed among the team members

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The nvm-sh/nvm GitHub repository is the source code for Node Version Manager (nvm).

It is a version manager for node.js, designed to be installed per-user, and invoked per-shell. nvm works on any POSIX-compliant shell (sh, dash, ksh, zsh, bash), in particular on these platforms: Unix, macOS, and windows WSL.

The purpose of nvm is to enable a user to work with different versions of Node.js seamlessly. It allows the user to switch between different versions, view all the installed and available versions, and install any version(s) required.

To summarize, key features of nvm include:

You can install any version of node.js.
You can use or test with any node.js version or npm version.
You can use nvm to use different versions of node.js for different projects.

As of present, the project is well-maintained and boasts over 50k stars on GitHub, highlighting its popularity among the developers working with node.js.