{"ID":2843151,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07851","arxiv_id":"2511.07851","title":"Uncovering Scientific Software Sustainability through Community Engagement and Software Quality Metrics","abstract":"Scientific open-source software (Sci-OSS) projects are critical for advancing research, yet sustaining these projects long-term remains a major challenge. This paper explores the sustainability of Sci-OSS hosted on GitHub, focusing on two factors drawn from stewardship organizations: community engagement and software quality. We map sustainability to repository metrics from the literature and mined data from ten prominent Sci-OSS projects. A multimodal analysis of these projects led us to a novel visualization technique, providing a robust way to display both current and evolving software metrics over time, replacing multiple traditional visualizations with one. Additionally, our statistical analysis shows that even similar-domain projects sustain themselves differently. Natural language analysis supports claims from the literature, highlighting that project-specific feedback plays a key role in maintaining software quality. Our visualization and analysis methods offer researchers, funders, and developers key insights into long-term software sustainability.","short_abstract":"Scientific open-source software (Sci-OSS) projects are critical for advancing research, yet sustaining these projects long-term remains a major challenge. This paper explores the sustainability of Sci-OSS hosted on GitHub, focusing on two factors drawn from stewardship organizations: community engagement and software q...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07851","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07851v1","authors":"[\"Sharif Ahmed\",\"Addi Malviya Thakur\",\"Gregory R. Watson\",\"Nasir U. Eisty\"]","published":"2025-11-11T05:34:27Z","proceeding":"cs.SE","tasks":"[\"cs.SE\"]","methods":"[\"Generative Adversarial Network\"]","has_code":false}