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SourceForge OSCI

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Description

The goal is to create and automate analysis of repos hosted on SourceForge (https://sourceforge.net/). This would be similar to our existing OSCI ranking which analyses repos hosted on GitHub, with a focus on the activity by commercial organizations.
1. Solution that crawls data about push events commits (PEC) that should contain the following required fields:
- event creation date;
- commit author (email address, name);
- SHA.
2. Adapt existing pipeline to process SourceForge data.

We did a high-level technical analysis on the feasability of making an OSCI for repos hosted on SourceForge. This is a summary of our findings:

Criteria | Status (Yes/No) | Notes (e.g. about how it is possible, or limitations, etc)
-- | -- | --
Is this site free to use for open source projects? | yes |  
Does it look like this site hosts many open source projects? | yes | “over 430,000 projects”Popular in open source community.BUT, it hosts a lot of binaries and mirrors of repos which are primarily hosted on github or elsewhere.
Size of user base | - | "we host over 3.7 million registered users”
Is there a public API we can query? | yes |  
API type | not studied yet |  
API URL | not studied yet |  
Query Limits (if any) | not studied yet |  
Is there a paid access with more information? | not studied yet |  
Is it possible to query the project license? | not studied yet |  
Is it possible to query commit events/commit counts by a user in a time period? | not studied yet |  
Is it possible to query email address or else some organization information for the person making a commit? | not studied yet |  
Is there a public archive we can use instead of the public API? | not studied yet |  
Any additional Information worth knowing? | not studied yet |  

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