Blackstone

Very large, active development team

Over the past twelve months, 102 developers contributed new code to Blackstone. This is one of the largest open-source teams in the world, and is in the top 2% of all project teams on Open Hub.

For this measurement, Open Hub considers only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 103 developers have contributed.

Short source control history

The source code repository for Blackstone has less than a year of continuous activity. This likely is a relatively new project.

A short history is not necessarily a bad thing (all projects have to start somewhere!) but often, newer projects are changing rapidly and are thus less stable. They are also often innovative and exciting!

As this project matures, a longer source control history in conjunction with recent activity might indicate that the project has enough merit to hold contributors' interest for a long time. It might indicate a mature and relatively bug-free code base, and can be a sign of an organized, dedicated development team.

Note: The source code for Blackstone might actually be older than the source control history can reveal. Many new projects begin by incorporating a large amount of source code from existing, older projects. You might be able to tell whether this is the case by looking for a rapid rise in the amount of code early in the project's history.

Few source code comments

Blackstone is written mostly in Python.

Across all Python projects on Open Hub, 24% of all source code lines are comments.

This lack of comments puts Blackstone among the lowest one-third of all Python projects on Open Hub.

A high number of comments might indicate that the code is well-documented and organized, and could be a sign of a helpful and disciplined development team.