Content Scoring

This topic describes how content is scored.

Content Scoring is in early iterations, to be improved with user feedback and future additions to ansible-lint.

Overall Score

The overall score is a combination of the community score, the quality score and the number of surveys that have been submitted for a role. This number is calculated as the weighted average of the community and quality scores. If there are fewer than three surveys submitted the quality score has a slightly higher weight. If there are three or more surveys submitted the community and quality scores have an identical weight. For more details on this formula see PR #1406.

Community Score

  • The Community Score is calculated from community surveys submitted by Galaxy users - Each question receives an value of 0 to 5 points based on how the user answers it - The total score is a simple average of the value of all of the questions - Questions that are unanswered are not included in the average
  • Maximum score of 5.0

Quality Score

  • The Quality Score is based on analysis from yamllint ansible-lint and import-time checks
  • Maximum score is 5.0
  • The Quality Score is the average of Syntax Score and Metadata Score

Note

Scoring is only done at import, to re-score please re-import

Linters Used

  • yamllint is run with a custom config
  • ansible-lint is run using its default rules, for information on how to fix Ansible Lint issues, see the descriptions in the default rules
  • import-time checks reference the Galaxy database, checking for valid platforms, valid cloud platforms, and loadable dependencies

Syntax Score

Linter issues applied to the Syntax Score are yamllint and non-metadata ansible-lint

Each linter issue is subtracted from a max score of 5.0:

  • Issue severity of “VERY_HIGH” reduces the score by 1.0
  • Issue severity of “HIGH” reduces the score by 0.5
  • Issue severity of “MEDIUM” reduces the score by 0.25
  • Issue severity of “LOW” reduces the score by 0.125
  • Issue severity of “VERY_LOW” reduces the score by 0.075
  • Issue severity of “INFO” does not reduce the score

Metadata Score

Linter issues applied to the Syntax Score are metadata ansible-lint and import-time checks

Each linter issue is subtracted from a max score of 5.0:

  • Issue severity of “VERY_HIGH” reduces the score by 1.0
  • Issue severity of “HIGH” reduces the score by 0.5
  • Issue severity of “MEDIUM” reduces the score by 0.25
  • Issue severity of “LOW” reduces the score by 0.125
  • Issue severity of “VERY_LOW” reduces the score by 0.075
  • Issue severity of “INFO” does not reduce the score