{
  "collector_semantics": {
    "repository": "https://github.com/NaiveNeuron/github-stars-in-context/tree/main/collector",
    "license": "MIT",
    "revision": "fe2d7196f4fe305a7a42bb871d267a751f5513f8",
    "policy_id": "git-h-index-fe2d7196-v1",
    "classification_basis": "Classes are derived from the collector's stored flags. They were not checked against GitHub",
    "empty_refresh_caveat": "The collector deletes obsolete rows only when a refresh returns at least one repository. A successful empty refresh can leave older rows in place",
    "execution_history": "Run logs were not kept. PROVENANCE.md in the code repository records what is known",
    "source_file_sha256": {
      "config.py": "395feea85c2bc1ca64eddc6942c8c8e7bdb52bf5f1edc3fc648833d888e422ef",
      "data_fetching/github_parser.py": "5e11db0afccf4e48bb9ec922ee59f1b283361ebc5eab116ef5ced035bb3016e8",
      "data_fetching/main.py": "5fbf439f342c33247cd2d9fa274d2746da5943b2f2fad5ffa8a6fcc7c90f6d72",
      "data_fetching/users_fetching/fetch_user_links.py": "d23999eb87985b6b444431a9585917aae6b905b8ffb6dc715c6463235feb7a98",
      "data_fetching/users_fetching/fetch_user_profile.py": "1efce9b500f5a581f73e0603ce25e0c751c260b5b7733218c6cf1872ca8aea5b",
      "data_fetching/users_fetching/popular_users.py": "a4ca76eeb6c5338f648a398ff0dfe72db8b69782863fe7b22cb142fcedbdbe73",
      "data_storage/database.py": "ed5ca3e99ce6826cea7ef679a609ef2a0dc3dde3f8e1e913c90d28425869e3b3"
    }
  },
  "constant_sponsorship": "sponsors_count is not released because the collector stored 0 for every account",
  "excluded_source_fields": {
    "repositories": [],
    "user_links": "whole table",
    "users": [
      "bio",
      "bio_length",
      "company",
      "following_count",
      "links_parsed_at",
      "location",
      "organizations_count",
      "sponsors_count"
    ]
  },
  "profile_rule": "profile_available is false when the stored biography is NULL or all stored profile fields have their default values. followers_count is then NULL and the stored value is kept in followers_count_raw",
  "row_policy": "Every stored account and repository row of the source database is released. The complete class does not certify that an account's repository list is complete",
  "source_sha256": "6feb097dfbcebbdbde2ba3bab24b65be7565b0eac6735dd28b7b86a1a31743c8",
  "tables": {
    "portfolios": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "description": "Local key of the account. Joins users.id",
          "name": "user_id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "GitHub's numeric ID of the account",
          "name": "github_id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Number of stored repository rows of the account, including repositories with no stars",
          "name": "n_repositories",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sum of stars over those rows",
          "name": "total_stars",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Largest star count among those rows. 0 for an account with no rows",
          "name": "max_stars",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sum of squared star counts over those rows",
          "name": "sum_squared_stars",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "h-index recomputed from the repository rows",
          "name": "h_observed",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "h-index stored by the collector (users.h_index)",
          "name": "h_stored",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Number of rows with at least one star",
          "name": "starred_repositories",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Sum of squared star shares (Herfindahl index). NULL when total_stars is 0",
          "name": "concentration",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "float"
        },
        {
          "description": "1 / concentration. NULL when total_stars is 0",
          "name": "effective_breadth",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "float"
        },
        {
          "description": "Same as users.retrieval_status",
          "name": "retrieval_status",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Same as users.profile_available",
          "name": "profile_available",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "True when the account's rows passed the structural checks. It says nothing about completeness",
          "name": "valid_portfolio",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "True when retrieval_status is complete. The reuse examples use these accounts",
          "name": "eligible",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "Why the account is left out of the reuse examples. NULL for accounts that are used. All rows stay in the release",
          "name": "exclusion_reason",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        }
      ],
      "rows": 3671497
    },
    "repositories": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "description": "Local key of the row",
          "name": "id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Local key of the owner. Joins users.id",
          "name": "user_id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "GitHub's numeric ID of the repository. Twenty IDs appear under more than one account",
          "name": "repository_id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Repository name as stored",
          "name": "name",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Creation time of the repository on GitHub. Not the time it was fetched",
          "name": "created_at",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Star count when the repository was fetched",
          "name": "stars",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        }
      ],
      "rows": 53990808
    },
    "users": {
      "fields": [
        {
          "description": "Local key of the account in this dataset. Not the GitHub ID",
          "name": "id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "GitHub's numeric ID of the account",
          "name": "github_id",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Login stored at collection time. The account may have been renamed since",
          "name": "github_name",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Time the collector inserted the account (8 or 9 December 2025). Not the GitHub registration date",
          "name": "created_at",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Time of the collector's last update of the account, or the placeholder 6200-01-01. Not the time the repositories were fetched",
          "name": "last_updated",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "h-index stored by the collector. portfolios.h_observed recomputes it from the repository rows",
          "name": "h_index",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Raw collector flag: 1 after a repository fetch ended, -1 while one was in progress",
          "name": "repositories_fetched",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Follower count. NULL when profile_available is false",
          "name": "followers_count",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Follower count as stored. When profile_available is false it is a default value, not an observed count",
          "name": "followers_count_raw",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        {
          "description": "Repository retrieval class derived from the collector's flags: complete, failed or unknown. Not checked against GitHub",
          "name": "retrieval_status",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "False when the stored biography is NULL or all stored profile fields are defaults. The follower count is then treated as missing",
          "name": "profile_available",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "True when the stored biography was NULL. The biography text is not released",
          "name": "bio_was_null",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "True when the stored profile fields all had their default values",
          "name": "profile_default_signature",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        {
          "description": "How retrieval_status was derived. Always collector_code_inference",
          "name": "retrieval_inference_basis",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Location in the collector source that supports the class",
          "name": "retrieval_evidence_ref",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "string"
        },
        {
          "description": "Always false. No account's repository list was checked against GitHub",
          "name": "rowset_completeness_independently_certified",
          "nullable": true,
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      ],
      "rows": 3671497
    }
  },
  "timestamp_semantics": {
    "users.created_at": "Time the collector inserted the account (8 or 9 December 2025). Not the GitHub registration date",
    "users.last_updated": "Time of the collector's last update of the account, or the placeholder 6200-01-01. Not the time the repositories were fetched",
    "repositories.created_at": "Creation time of the repository on GitHub. Not the time it was fetched"
  },
  "views": {
    "identifier_crosswalk": {
      "definition_file": "crosswalk.sql",
      "materialized": false,
      "url_meaning": "URLs are built from the stored login and repository name. They were not checked against GitHub"
    }
  },
  "version": "1.1.0"
}