Editorial standards

Who publishes this

Breakwave is an independent project that tracks how fast open-source repositories are growing. We take daily measurements of every project on the board and rank them by momentum, which describes how quickly a project’s star growth is accelerating relative to every other project we track.

How articles are produced

Our guides are drafted with AI assistance and then reviewed separately, by reviewers that did not write the draft. Review covers three things: whether each factual claim holds, whether the argument survives someone actively trying to break it, and whether the piece meets the standards on this page. Drafts that fail are reworked or dropped rather than published with caveats.

We say this plainly because the alternative is pretending otherwise. We do not publish articles under invented author names or fictional personas.

What we verify, and against what

The claims an article’s recommendation rests on — version numbers, release dates, licences, and the feature claims we argue from — are checked against primary sources: a project’s own repository, documentation, package registry listing, or paper. Not against blog posts describing them, and not from memory. We keep a written record of what was checked and against which URL.

That record is also where we catch ourselves. Checks have reversed claims we had already written, and claims we could not source have been removed rather than softened into something vaguer.

Every article carries a published and a last-updated date. Software moves quickly, and a guide that was accurate on publication can stop being accurate without anyone touching it.

Where our numbers come from

Any figure describing how a project is growing comes from Breakwave’s own measurements, and we state the date it was measured. Star counts, ranks and acceleration figures in an article are a snapshot of that day, not a live value.

Momentum measures attention and acceleration. It is not a quality score, and it is not a recommendation. A large, mature project flattening out is the ordinary consequence of being large. Where we have not tested something ourselves, the article says so.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it on the page and add a dated line to a Corrections block at the foot of that article, so the record of what changed stays visible instead of disappearing into an edit. If you spot an error, tell us at paresh.shrivastava.jiit@gmail.com.

Independence

We do not accept payment for coverage, placement, or ranking. No project can pay to appear on the board, to rank higher on it, or to be recommended in a guide. Rankings are computed from public repository activity by the same pipeline for every tracked project.