A Trustworthiness Fuzzy Evaluation Model for Open Source Community

With the frequent occurrence of security issues in open-source software, the public is gradually paying attention to the trustworthiness of open-source software. As the cradle of open-source software, the open-source community affects the quality and security of open-source software. Current researches about trustworthiness in open-source communities mainly focus on single attribute, rather than conducting a comprehensive analysis from a macro perspective. This paper proposes an open-source community trustworthiness measurement model that combines multi-level fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method with trustworthiness attribute hierarchical model. The model includes five attributes: support, activeness, standardization, maturity, and community team. This study is the first to propose a comprehensive trustworthiness model for open-source community, reflecting the multi-dimensional attributes of open-source community. At the same time, We construct membership functions to optimize experts’ evaluations of open-source community. Finally, this paper takes OpenEuler community as an empirical object and uses the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model proposed in this paper to measure and verify the practicality of the method.