Automatic updates – a study by the University of North Carolina State
A study from the North Carolina State University discovered that projects which are using open source libraries are updated 60% more often when using automatic updates via pull requests. The base of the study are 7,470 repositories on GitHub. This blog post is a summary of the most important facts and highlights of the methods, challenges and tools when it comes to use of automation for reaching a higher security level while using open source libraries.
There are 3 main facts why open source updates are a pain for developers
Developers are always busy and doing updates is no fun
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