Research notice: Sustainability in Open Source Projects

[yochannah]

Please note that this repository is participating in a reserach study called "Sustainability in Open Source Projects". Data will be gathered about this repository for approximately the next 12 months, starting from June 2021. Data collected will include number of contributors, number of PRs, time taken to close/merge these PRs, and issues closed. For more information, please visit the informational page or download the participant information sheet.

This notice has been placed in compliance with the ethics review board process from the Department of Computer Science at University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. The presence of this notice does not exclude other projects from gathering metrics via GitHub's open-access API.

You can also see initial discussion about this notice here: https://github.com/bioperl/bioperl-live/pull/358

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I would recommend leaving this issue open for a while so contributors can spot it; I'll try to loop back and close it after the final surveys are done in one year!