Is there value in a tool like this for the OSS community?

[devfreddy]

Should we?

Reasons not to:

• It's already been solved somewhere else
• We don't want to maintain something like this

Reasons to do it:

• Existing tools are spread out
• Existing solutions may not provide a CLI interface, reducing ability to automate via CI

Existing tools

todo Group tools list or Github version

Repo Linter

License Finder

Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) Parser - I'm unclear if this pertains to our work, maybe the non-nr1 projects?

ScanCode

GH Crawler

~OSS Attribution Builder~ - seems to be a "website" for admins/users not useful as a CLI

~Open Source Portal~ - more complex than we want at this time

Github API Clients - speeds up our ability to develop our own tools

[devfreddy]

Features

• [ ] Installable/usable in CI tools
• [ ] Generate a local UI for managing an Organization (via caching/storing GH data)
• [ ] Generating a contributors list/file
• [ ] Finding open issues across many projects
• [ ] Creating a new repository from a template