Maintenance: Commit intensity: The EU-27 in an international comparison
To understand Europe’s standing, it is essential to analyse quantitative metrics such as repository generation, commit frequency,
and contributor activity. Data from GitHub and other platforms indicate that while the United States leads in absolute numbers of
repositories and contributors, Europe demonstrates a steady growth trajectory.
China has surged in repository creation, especially between 2015 and 2020. Afterwards the activities measurable via GitHub
repository formation and commits, however, decreased, which can partly be explained by a shift towards Gitee, a very popular
DevOps platform launched launched in 2013 by Open Source China (OSChina).