This is a crosspost from URSSI Blog on Official Website of the US Research Software Sustaiability Institute, Recent content in URSSI Blog on Official Website of the US Research Software Sustaiability Institute. See the original post here.
This blog post suggests an expression that can be used to loosely quantify software sustainability, and then proposes that projects that seek sustainaiblity use this formula when making decisions. It’s heavily based on a a white paper for the 2019 Collegeville Workshop on Sustainable Scientific Software (CW3S19), which in turn is based on a previous blog post, and it is crossposted on the BSSw and URSSI blogs, as well as my own blog.