The METRICS.csv file attempts to define a list of metrics that can be useful for analysing software projects. It is taking a broad perspective and looking at a range of aspects that can contribute to the evaluation of projects.
Metrics: Object of interest for the Open Integrity Index, sequence of measurement of a particular observable across time.
Name: Name of the metric
Object: The object that the metric is about. See Object Types below
Category / Sub-Category: Preliminary attempt at a metrics taxonomy. Very little thoughts has gone into this new version so far.
Data Type: An attempt to specify the type of data expected to be collected with this metric.
Raw Data Provenance: Potential sources for the raw data
OII v1 Criteria: https://wiki.openintegrity.org/doku.php?id=criteria_subcriteria_claim
Project: A software project (an end user tool, a libary, a package,...)
Contributor: A participant in a project
Owner: The entity responsible for the project
Service: A deployed instance of a project