Code commonly flows downstream, from an open-source project into an organization’s own products. Upstreaming is the process of reversing that flow—contributing code back to an open-source project.

Number of related projects: The robustness of an open source project can in part be measured by the number of projects surrounding it. Here, Backbone.js and AngularJS are the clear winners.

“Open-source projects always welcome contributions from anyone, anywhere, yet granting someone administrative access to the source code as a maintainer requires a higher level of earned trust ...

The roots of the problem were in a project Koçulu, a prolific developer of open source JavaScript libraries and a longtime unofficial evangelist for npm, had launched on npm called "kik"—a ...

Open source developer Marak Squires appears to have intentionally pushed corrupt updates to two of his libraries on npm and GitHub. Since these libraries are so widely-used a number of projects ...

The demonstration attracted some attention, prompting the developers to publish the source code. Broadway is based on the open source H.264 decoder that Google uses in Android.

Users of popular open-source libraries 'colors' and 'faker' were left stunned after they saw their applications, using these libraries, printing gibberish data and breaking. Some surmised if the ...