Reports on code you already know

These are not mockups. Each one was produced from a full clone of a well-known open-source project with npx ancient-code ., the same command you can run on your own code.

webpack/webpack

38 of 40 modules depend on one person

40 of 40 modules concentrated · 51 fences in source · 39 in tests · oldest 8.8 yr

puppeteer/puppeteer

3 of 17 modules depend on one person

4 of 17 modules concentrated · 32 fences in source · 45 in tests · oldest 9.1 yr

expressjs/express

1 of 6 modules are close to a single owner

1 of 6 modules concentrated · 0 fences in source · 2 in tests · oldest 1.9 yr

eslint/eslint

2 of 25 modules depend on one person

2 of 25 modules concentrated · 43 fences in source · 399 in tests · oldest 8.2 yr

All four projects are maintained by excellent engineers, and that is the point. This is not negligence, it is blindness that nothing on the market corrects. Contributors are labelled rather than named: the measurement is about how knowledge is distributed, never about a person.