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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....

February 20, 2022 · 4 min · Panagiotis Simakis