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Metrics
ROS community metrics help track project activity, ecosystem health, and the impact of ongoing development work. This article provides links to live project dashboards, package download data, citation information, and historical metrics reports so you can explore how the ROS community is measured over time.
While we do not track ROS users, we do measure various aspects of the ROS community to understand and track the impact of our work and identify areas for improvement.
Live Project Metrics
metrics.ros.org is a website that hosts relatively up to day visualizations of metrics about the ROS community.
The Linux Foundation’s LFX dashboard on ROS contains an up-to-date contributor, development, popularity, and project health metrics.
Our OSU OSL AWStats dashboard provides real time data on ROS package downloads.
Note that you will need to specify the current month and year in the AWStats URL to get the latest information.
Github mains a complete list of packages and projects tagged with #ROS and #ROS2.
An up to date list of citations for the original ROS paper (Quigley et al., 2009), and the canonical ROS 2 paper (Macenski et al., 2022) are both available on Google Scholar.
Periodic Metrics Report
We periodically publish a metrics report that provides a quantitative view of the ROS community. We’re collectively learning what to measure and how and evolving as systems change. Please provide feedback! Add your suggestions on how to improve these reports by posting them to Open Robotics Discourse Site Feedback Category.