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Their methodology defines 'project' as github repo. That's probably quite strong as the vast majority of repo's carry no formalised initiative or organisation d

Their methodology defines 'project' as github repo. That's probably quite strong as the vast majority of repo's carry no formalised initiative or organisation driving it, but are 'merely' places for tinkering of individual users. If anything, I'm surprised about 10% are still active. If you compare it to the failure rate of formal (money-backed) initiatives of startups in general, or say restaurants, or hell, people starting a workout routine this time a year, it's not a particularly unique failure rate. edit: they later differentiate between users/organisations. The latter has about double the activity rate (15%) after a year. But they define organisations using GitHub's definition, which can be had for as little as $300 a year. At that level the difference between user and organisation is probably limited to the difference between casual user and casual entrepreneur.

cortesoft 9y ago
Do they compare the rate to the normal project abandonment rate on GitHub?
alangpierce 9y ago
GitHub organizations are actually free (although, of course, there are paid plans for private repos and enterprise features): https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-organization-from-scratch/ https://help.github.com/articles/creating-a-new-organization... It's often a way that people group collections of related subprojects of an open source project, e.g. Babel is an org, with babel/babel being the primary repo: https://github.com/babel https://github.com/babel People who make an org rather than just a project are probably more serious about it, which explains the higher activity rate, but it's still just "someone on the internet tried out an idea".