This CHAOSS Community podcast features members who spent considerable time and effort to understand open source community health and how we can measure it through metrics, analytics, and software. We invite guests to this podcast to talk about how they use open source community health metrics and software in their own open source communities, companies, or foundations. This podcast fills the gap with open source community metric definitions and software on one side and their use on the other side.
Host Harmony Elendu and panelists Georg Link, Alice Sowerby, and Maryblessing Okolie reflect on CHAOSScast's journey and its indefinite pause.
16 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 132: Please take the CHAOSScast Impact Survey - and we're taking a break
Thank you to the folks at Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 132
We don’t have an episode for you today, because CHAOSScast will be taking a break for a few months.
During the break we will be evaluating how CHAOSScast supports the goals of the CHAOSS project. And to help us to do that, we would like to invite you to take a short survey by going to the link:
https://forms.gle/zrvanrRArgzc3wDD9 (https://forms.gle/zrvanrRArgzc3wDD9)
The survey closes on Friday, May 15th 2026.
In this short recording we go through the survey questions to get you thinking about your answers before you go ahead and take it, and first we share with you the goals of the CHAOSS project so that you have some extra context to help you answer in an informed way.
CHAOSS aims to:
Establish metrics and models for measuring open source community health
Produce open source software and initiatives for measuring community health
Develop programs for deploying metrics beyond trace data
Work with global partners to shape how we understand open source community health
The survey is quite short, but it’s really meaningful to helping us know how the podcast contributes to achieving CHAOSS’s goals.
We are especially interested in honest feedback, even if you rarely listen.
Thanks for helping.
Your CHAOSS community.
00:00 Podcast Break Announcement
00:13 Why We Need Your Survey
00:28 CHAOSS Project Goals
00:53 Survey Basics and Listening Habits
01:17 How The Podcast Supports Goals
01:44 Impact on Your Actions
02:10 Importance Versus Other Sources
02:21 Unique Value and Improvements
02:42 Thanks and See You Soon
Support CHAOSScast (https://opencollective.com/chaoss)
2 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 131: Repo-Health - a tool built on CHAOSS metrics
Thank you to the folks at Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) for providing the hosting account for CHAOSSCast!
CHAOSScast – Episode 131
In this episode of the CHAOSScast, host Georg Link sits down with guest, Elshad Humbatli, and panelists, Alice Sowerby and Adrian Edwards, to answer the question "How can CHAOSS metrics help you quickly assess the health of an open source project that you might want to use or join?"
Elshad, creator of Repo-Health, explains why he created the tool, and how he used the CHAOSS metrics to produce high-level insights on the health of an open source repo.
The conversation goes further, to discuss breaking down project activity to navigating the rise of AI-generated contributions, and dives deep into the human and technical sides of open source.
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[00:00:00] – The hosts introduce the episode and welcome the panelists and guest
[00:01:41] – Elshad shares how he discovered CHAOSS metrics and got inspired to build Repo Health.
[00:03:10] – A deep dive into the four pillars: activity, maintenance, community, and documentation.
[00:06:15] – The group debates how different metrics reflect project health and what “community” really means.
[00:10:07] – Elshad explains what Repo Health does and how users can benefit from it.
[00:12:00] – Discussion around the pros and cons of combining metrics into a single health score.
[00:17:01] – Exploring how context and goals shape which metrics matter using the GQM framework.
[00:21:00] – Real-world contributor experiences highlight the importance of documentation and responsiveness.
[00:23:00] – The impact of AI and LLMs on open source contributions and community dynamics.
[00:29:07] – Elshad shares future plans for Repo Health and opportunities for collaboration.
Value Adds (Picks) of the week:
[00:32:00] Gerog's pick is enjoying the in-between time after ending his last job.
[00:33:11] Alice's pick is the vernal equinox.
[00:33:58] Adrian's pick is spending time with friends and new experiences.
[00:34:35] Elshad's pick is low level language coding.
Host
Georg Link
Panelist:
Alice Sowerby
Adrian Edwards
Guests:
Elshad Humbatli
Links:
CHAOSS (https://chaoss.community/)
CHAOSS Project X (https://twitter.com/chaossproj?lang=en)
CHAOSScast Podcast (https://podcast.chaoss.community/)
CHAOSS YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@CHAOSStube/videos)
podcast@chaoss.community (mailto:podcast@chaoss.community)
CHAOSS Calendar (https://chaoss.community/chaoss-calendar/)
CHAOSS Slack (https://chaoss-workspace.slack.com/join/shared_invite/zt-r65szij9-QajX59hkZUct82b0uACA6g#/shared-invite/email)
Alice Sowerby LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-sowerby-ba692a13/?originalSubdomain=uk)
Adrian Edwards LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriancedwards/)
Elshad Humbatli LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/elshad-humbatli-56446a372/)
Georg Link Website (https://georg.link/)
Repo-Health tool (https://repo-health.up.railway.app/)
Special Guests: Adrian Edwards and Elshad Humbatli.
Support CHAOSScast (https://opencollective.com/chaoss)
Inside a recent episode
Episode 133: Until Next Time
Published 2 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] By making it the deliberate community podcast, we were able to keep the podcast alive. If it had been mine, it would have fallen apart and been done a long time ago. It is a real community effort. And we did this from the very beginning by having a logo contest. What should the logo be of the Chaos Community podcast? And if you listen to episode number 26, we interview Luis Canas Diaz, who submitted the winning design. We also made sure to always have more than one organizer. So we started with three organizers and we always shared in the work of finding guests and discussing the topics and facilitating the conversations. […]
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