OSS: Estimate and monitor the number of active users using Github Actions
Context A beta version of your awesome open-source software has been released. Great news so far. Except from introducing new features, fixing bugs and answering users’ questions, it’s really important to have an estimation of the total number of users. In case you are not the only user of your OSS, it’s significant to monitor the active users for the following reasons: Motivation. Knowing that people are using you software will motivate you to keep maintaining and improving your project. Trustworthy software. Spreading the total number of active users indicates that your OSS is trustworthy. So, this article is going to present a way to count active users and installations using Github Actions. ...