Open Source Ecosystem

AE-250 Level 1 API Evangelist extension API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA 31 providers 73 API surfaces 12 rated strong or better

The public commons of open source: where packages are published, how projects are funded, and the communities and companies around them. Enterprise inbound/outbound stewardship stays upstream (BC-4200.60).

Open Source Ecosystem (AE-250) is a level-1 business capability in the API Evangelist extension model. The catalog holds 73 API surface(s) from 31 provider(s) that can perform some part of it, 12 of them rated strong or better. Reach is the vendor surface that lands on this capability — it is not a claim about what any particular organisation has deployed.

Where this capability definition comes from. This capability is part of the API Evangelist extension to the business-capability model, written by API Evangelist and licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. API Evangelist capability extension — https://apievangelist.com Audience: b2bconsumer It extends, and never modifies, Turbo EA Capabilities by Vincent Verdet (CC BY 4.0). · Extension provenance and licence

Sub-capabilities

Package Registries & Distribution AE-250.10API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

b2b

Publishing and installing open source packages and images from public registries.

29 providers, 65 API surfaces

Open Source Sponsorship & Funding AE-250.20API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

b2bconsumer

Paying maintainers and projects: sponsorships, donations and grants.

no catalog coverage

Open Source Community AE-250.30API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

b2bconsumer

Running and measuring the communities around projects.

3 providers, 8 API surfaces

Self-Hosted & Commercial Open Source AE-250.40API Evangelist extension, CC BY-NC-SA

b2b

Open source products offered as self-hosted software or a managed service by the company behind them.

no catalog coverage

Providers that reach this capability

Ordered by rating band. Reach means a provider publishes an API surface that can perform some part of this capability — it is not a claim that any particular organisation has deployed it.

Exemplar 6 Complete, well-documented, and agent-ready
GitHubPackages1 API74.3CircleCIOrb PackagesOrb Versions2 APIs72.6PingCAPIssue CreatorsPull Request CreatorsStargazers3 APIs69.9GiteaPackage1 API69.3Eclipse FoundationCommitter Paperwork APIregistry-apivs-code-api3 APIs66.8JFrog ArtifactoryArtifacts & StorageManifestsRepositories3 APIs66.6
Strong 6 Solid coverage with minor gaps
Microsoft .NETPackageContentRegistration2 APIs65.5AnacondaArtifactsChannels2 APIs65.0Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformAnsible: CollectionsApi: Content V3 Collections VersionsApi: Content V3 Plugin Ansible Content Collections ArtifactsApi: V3 Collections21 APIs63.4Crowd.devAffiliationsMaintainer RolesMember Affiliations APIProject Affiliations4 APIs62.2GoHarborRepository1 API59.6Amazon CodeArtifactamazon-codeartifact-operations-apiamazon-codeartifact-package-group-api2 APIs56.6
Developing 16 Usable, with meaningful gaps to close
Buildpacks IoBuildpacks1 API53.5BallerinaConnectorsPackages2 APIs51.5JetifyPkgResolve2 APIs50.0npmPackages1 API49.7NuGetFlatcontainerRegistration2 APIs47.5PulumiRegistry1 API45.6Google FlutterPackages1 API44.7Docker HubRepositories1 API44.0BazelModules1 API43.8GitLab CI/CDPackages1 API43.8TerraformModules1 API43.4Artifact HubPackagesRepositories2 APIs43.1Ansible RolesCollectionsRoles2 APIs42.7Ruby Programming Language and Popular API GemsGems1 API42.4crates.ioCratesVersions2 APIs40.2QuayManifest1 API39.7
Thin 3 Limited public surface area
TimoniArtifactsModules2 APIs36.5HelmChartMuseumChartsRepository3 APIs35.0UbuntuRefresh1 API34.7
This page carries no rating. Capabilities are not rated. A capability is a description of what a business does, not a thing a company publishes, so a Kin Score would have nothing to measure.
The edge table is a Pro feature. This page shows which providers and tags reach Open Source Ecosystem. The underlying tag → capability edges — each with the quoted fragment of the provider's own OpenAPI that evidences it, a calibrated confidence score, and the contract-provenance gate it passed — are available through the API, along with company-level capability maps. Only edges at confidence ≥ 0.7 with evidence found verbatim in the source contract are published at all.

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