C001 — H1:¶
Contents¶
Statement: Approximately 40% of open source projects on major hosting platforms use some form of continuous integration, as measured by presence of CI configuration files or CI service integrations.
Supporting Evidence Would Show¶
- Empirical studies mining GitHub repositories that find CI configuration files (e.g., .travis.yml, .github/workflows/, .circleci/) in roughly 40% of active repositories.
- Survey data from OSS maintainers reporting CI adoption rates in the 35-45% range.
- Academic publications analyzing large repository samples that report CI adoption near 40%.
Eliminating Evidence Would Show¶
- Large-scale empirical studies showing CI adoption rates significantly above 50% or below 30% across representative samples.
- Evidence that 40% reflects only a specific subset (e.g., only GitHub Actions) rather than all CI tools combined.
- Studies showing the 40% figure is outdated due to rapid GitHub Actions adoption post-2020.