Anchore Open Source: 2024 Year in Review

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Anchore Open Source: 2024 Year in Review

:rocket: A Year of Remarkable Growth

2024 has been an incredible year for the Anchore Open Source community. We’ve seen valuable contributions from brand new members, repeat submissions from our core community, and eager new people, learning the ropes. We’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to, discussed, consumed and shared our Open Source work.

Let’s look at some numbers that tell our story this year.

:busts_in_silhouette: Community Growth

Our community has seen exceptional growth across all metrics:

  • Community Members:

    • Grew by 97.35% from 264 to 521 members

  • Community Engagement:

    • Conversations increased by 138.45% (749 → 1,786)
    • Average response time improved by 78.57% (7 days → 1.5 days)
    • Conversations per member increased by 20.77%

:hammer_and_wrench: Developer Contributions

Our flagship projects have attracted more contributors than ever:

  • Syft:

    • Total contributors increased by 25.55% (131 → 166)

  • Grype:

    • Total contributors increased by 31.25% (75 → 100)

  • '23 vs '24 Contributors:

    • Grew from 42 to 104 (+147.62%)

  • 23 vs '24 Contributions:

    • Increased from 86 to 216 (+151.16%)

:package: Release Activity

In 2024, we maintained a strong release cadence across our projects:

Key Projects

  • Syft: 34 releases (709 commits)
  • Grype: 35 releases (431 commits)
  • Vunnel: 26 releases (254 commits)
  • Grype-DB: 24 releases (194 commits)

Supporting Projects

  • SBOM-Action: 22 releases
  • Scan-Action: 18 releases
  • Stereoscope: 9 releases
  • Grant: 8 releases
  • Yardstick: 5 releases
  • Quill: 2 releases

:bar_chart: Project Growth

:star2: Star growth for our main projects:

  • Syft: +23.91% (5,128 → 6,400)
  • Grype: +28.91% (6,915 → 9,070)

:iphone: Social Media Presence

We’ve expanded our presence across multiple platforms. We will continue posting everywhere, while it’s worthwhile.

  • YouTube:

    • Subscribers: +38.59% (309 → 429)
    • Views: +86.05% (3,828 → 7,122)
    • Watch time: +97.87% (215.8h → 427h)

  • Fediverse:

  • BlueSky:

With the exodus from Twitter/X, we started sharing announcements over on Bluesky.

:memo: Content Creation

  • Published 11 OSS/Tech blogs in 2024 (+22.22% from 2023)

:dart: Looking Forward

With the tremendous growth we’ve seen in 2024, we’re excited about the future of the Anchore Open Source community. The increased contributor base, faster response times, and growing engagement across all platforms set a strong foundation for 2025.

Credits

We are grateful to all of our community members who who took time to contribute and converse with us this year:

xixishidibei, witchcraze, shawn (ag4ve), ps-e, plavy, oftenoccur.
mikey strauss, mikcl, luozexuan (Hair), guoguangwu, dufucun (Tencent), deftdawg, cloudaid.
camcui, ben (Zoundream), William Tang (NIO), Vincent Privat (Airbus Defence and Space), Viacheslav Kudinov, Tony DevOps, Timotej Ecimovic (Digital Geyser).

Tim, Thomas Gosteli, Take, Stijn Taelemans (AikidoSec), Stefan Hacker, Shubham Hibare (thomsonreuters), Seiya.

Sean Fazenbaker, Ryuichi Okumura, Ryan, Russell Haering, Robert Sturla (immocapital), Robert (DEMCON), Ralph Bean (Red Hat).

Rajan Agaskar (Broadcom (formerly VMware (formerly Pivotal))), Pouyan Khodabakhsh, Piyush Bhaskar (IBM India Pvt. Ltd.), Piotr Radkowski, Paul Tader, Noah Krause, Niv Govrin (OligoCyberSecurity).

Nathan Voss (Finite State), Mike Frederick (Cesium), Mikail (saleor), Michael Simmons, Marcus Meissner (SUSE), Lukas Voetmand, Lucas Rodriguez.

Laurent Goderre (docker), Krystian G., Kenny Leung, Keith Chason (Responder Admin Solutions), Juan Ariza Toledano (VMware), Jozef Izso (Slido), Joshua Irmer (Gonicus).
Joshua Cooper, Josh Buker (cloudsecurityalliance), Joseph Palermo (Pivotal Labs), Jose R. Gonzalez (Red Hat), Jose D. Gomez R. (SUSE), Jörg Thalheim (no), Jon Johnson (Chainguard).

Joel Rudsberg (Oracle), HeyeOpenSource (Heye International GmbH), Harm Weites (tinkatech), Harippriya Sivapatham, Gijs Calis (triopsys-net), George Liontos (ForAllSecure), George Adams (Microsoft).

Firas AlShafei, Feroz Salam (isovalent), Felix Bünemann (LOUISINTERNET), Fearkin (Cloud24), Eric Chin, Eiji Ito, Dor Hayun (WhiteSource)

Dominik Schmidt, Danielle Featherstone, Dan Luhring (Chainguard), Colm O hEigeartaigh (Qlik), Christopher Phillips, Christophe Fergeau (Red Hat), Christof Renner (glueckkanja).
Christian Dupuis (docker), Chris Plock (AppDynamics), Chris Lenz (freelenzer), Carlos Alexandro Becker (charmbracelet), C0D3 M4513R, Brian Ebarb (CGI Federal).

Bert Coppens, BenoitGui, Bengt Wegner (IBM), Bar Nuri (CheckPointSW), BMM, Avtar Gill (Inclusive Design Research Centre), Artemii

Ariel Miculas-Trif (Cisco), Andrew Garner (VMware), Andrei Stefanie (cyscale), Alex Glikson (Check Point), Adnan Gulegulzar, Adam McClenaghan, Adam Hughes (Sylabs Inc), 2rigor.

Thank you all, from your friends on the Open Source Team at Anchore.
See you next year!

Note: Data compiled from GitHub, Discourse, and social media platforms.