In the afternoon of April 25, 2025, the 2025 Board Meeting of the OSS-Compass (hereinafter referred to as "Compass") Community was successfully held at the Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. A total of 11 Board members attended this meeting. Among them, Zhou Junsong from the Software Institute of the National Center for Industrial Information Security Development Research, Ma Hongwei from Baidu, Liang Guanyu from the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qiu Ruiqiao from Peking University, Ma Quanyi and Wang Yehui from Huawei, and Long Wenxuan from ChicoHoude attended the meeting on-site. In addition, Tao Xianping and Wang Liang from Nanjing University, and Hongshu and Zhang Shengxiang from OSCHINA participated in the meeting online, jointly embarking on this in-depth exploration journey of the development of the open-source community.

In the wave of the vigorous development of the open-source community, OSS-Compass has established an open-source project evaluation system based on an indicator model. After two years of polishing and precipitation, its functions have been continuously improved, and the community has become increasingly mature. For open-source developers who want to make a difference in the OSS-Compass community, a deep understanding of the project's front-end technical architecture is the key to opening the door to contribution. In this article, we will delve into the front-end main repository project architecture and development environment of the OSS-Compass platform, covering key aspects such as its technology stack, file structure, routing system, API interaction, and development environment setup, helping everyone understand the design ideas and implementation details behind it. In the follow-up, we will further explore the management techniques of the project classification repository, the construction and optimization methods of the document repository, and study the details of API interaction to improve data interaction efficiency.

Hello, all open-source friends! Long time no see! In the new year, the OSS-Compass community will also bring you new surprises! Today, we will share with you the efficient development guide compiled by the OSS-Compass community. Let's take a look together!

Nowadays, with the vigorous development of open source communities, how to efficiently evaluate the health of projects, track the activities of contributors, and quantify the influence of the community has become the focus of attention for developers and enterprises. As an open source ecosystem analysis platform, OSS-Compass provides powerful technical support for community governance by integrating data collection, storage, calculation, and visualization capabilities. Based on the recently compiled OSS-Compass development guide, this article will analyze how to quickly deploy the OSS-Compass platform and develop customized indicators, enabling developers to make a leap from open source consumers to ecosystem builders.

Hello, everyone, do you remember Compass Lab, the SaaS service launched by Compass last year? I believe many users have already experienced this awesome feature! It is a powerful assistant for users to manage evaluation projects, not only aggregates a huge amount of data, but also provides a full range of health assessment services, and has gained a lot of positive feedback from users over the past year.

On February 21, 2024, the CNCF open source project Linkerd announced that it would no longer provide stable builds. The source code will continue to be under the OSI-approved Apache v2 open source license. Non-stable builds will also still be provided through the open source project. This change is about the release artifacts of stable builds only, not about code, governance, community, or anything else.

So why is there a push back and why was this so unexpected by the CNCF community at large?

Buoyant, the company behind Linkerd, quite accurately describes itself as “a small but mighty team of software engineers, network programmers, and distributed systems experts.” That small but mighty team has been the sole force behind the open source project for quite some time, and as their CEO writes, “to do that work and maintain that quality, there’s only one sustainable path: we need the many, many companies around the world that are building their businesses on top of Linkerd to do their part to fund the project,” and he bluntly lays it all out (and on the line) in his expanded blog post here.

In a month where another CNCF project, Flux, backed by Weaveworks called it quits and folded up its tent (see Alex Richardson’s post), one has to wonder what is going on under the big tent of the CNCF and if there’s any way to stop a more seismic shift in the stability of CNCF projects.

Let’s take a step back and look at open source project health metrics for the Linkerd project.

Hello everyone, OSS Compass Project Deep Dive Insight Solution has been significantly updated again, making it quicker for you to understand information about open source project contributors! Come and check it out~

Hello everyone, there's been new developments with OSS Compass lately! The Project Deep Dive Insight Solution has been upgraded once again, so let's take a look at what's changed together.

Countless projects emerge in the open source world every day, but accurately assessing the health of an open source project has always been a challenge. Fortunately, we now have the open source project's health check doctor - OSS Compass, and recently its open source ecosystem evaluation system and SaaS services have undergone comprehensive upgrades! Last week, we introduced the Contributor Persona Model and Project Deep Dive Insight Solution. Now, let's take a look at the Three-Dimensional Evaluation System Graph and Compass Collaboration together.