Pith Number

pith:VFNCTGC4

pith:2024:VFNCTGC4LWWFJJMXRSPEWYRJII

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Revealing the value of Repository Centrality in lifespan prediction of Open Source Software Projects

Hengzhi Ye, Minghui Zhou, Runzhi He

arxiv:2405.07508 v1 · 2024-05-13 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VFNCTGC4LWWFJJMXRSPEWYRJII}

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4 Citations open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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1 paper in Pith

The Death Spiral of Open Source Projects: A Post-Mortem Analysis of Pull Request Workflow Dynamics

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First computed	2026-07-05T08:18:23.572301Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a95a29985c5dac54a5978c9e4b6229420d6d985d7508f20ee4d6aa338bad7541

Aliases

arxiv: 2405.07508 · arxiv_version: 2405.07508v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2405.07508 · pith_short_12: VFNCTGC4LWWF · pith_short_16: VFNCTGC4LWWFJJMX · pith_short_8: VFNCTGC4

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VFNCTGC4LWWFJJMXRSPEWYRJII \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: a95a29985c5dac54a5978c9e4b6229420d6d985d7508f20ee4d6aa338bad7541

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ea7512f48a9fd7a815a1917fbfaaef976a91ab53a0fd88443f21242cd000d1f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2024-05-13T07:07:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "393e36a15db2d9a21dcd1a0e35d6e451892119cd62cb0cc84276826a44dd5b9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2405.07508",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}