Contribution activity and bus factor of trezor/trezor-firmware

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Evolving ✨

Contribution activity is growing

Why trezor/trezor-firmware is evolving?

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 trezor/trezor-firmware

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 trezor/trezor-firmware repository has a bus factor of 8.

Low risk, knowledge is well distributed among the team members

Bus factor was measured on 14 Aug 2024

Repository summary

The Trezor Firmware GitHub repository is an open-source project managed by SatoshiLabs. This repository contains the source code for the firmware of Trezor hardware wallets, which are devices for secure Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency transactions.

Here are some key points about this repository:

Monorepo: This repository is a monorepository, which means it contains multiple related projects. Specifically, it contains the trezor-core (for Trezor Model T) and trezor-legacy (for Trezor One) projects.
Languages: The majority of the code written in the repository is in C, Python and other languages.
Contribution: As an open source project, anyone can contribute to the development of the Trezor firmware.

Please note that while the repository allows open source contribution, it strongly suites developers who understand the security repercussions of their changes. It is not intended for unsolicited redesigns, unnecessary feature additions or substantial refactoring.

The repository also contains resources related to Trezor hardware wallets such as documentation, a guide to compiling the source code, description of the device's hardware, and other technical details.