Automation analysis

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I'm researching automation maturity, and have investigated your repository and looked at the GitHub workflows and Maven plugins you are using! I'll give you a quick summary of what I found, and the automation tasks I recommend you to focus on next (:

Level of maturity	Basic	Intermediate	Advanced
Collaboration	‎ ✅ Completed this level!
	✔️ Generate documentation from source code ✔️ Prepare or create documentation artifacts	❌ Commit validation ❌ Bot commits	❌ Publish documentation ❌ Issues or PRs management
Code quality	‎ ✅ Completed this level!
	✔️ Run tests	✔️ Test coverage and validity ✔️ Static code quality analysis ❌ Generate test reports ❌ Automatic code formatting ❌ Static code style analysis	✔️ Verify packaging correctness ✔️ Sign artifacts ✔️ License checks ❌ Vulnerability scans
Development	‎ ⚠️ Still working on this level!
	✔️ Build environment configuration ❌ Package management	✔️ Build files configuration	❌ Optimization
Artifacts	‎ ⚠️ Still working on this level!
	✔️ Code compilation ✔️ Dependency management of artifact ❌ Source code version control	✔️ Build tasks, resources and configuration ✔️ Packaging ✔️ Generate source and metadata artifacts ✔️ Release tagging ✔️ Publish artifacts to a registry	❌ Generate release notes ❌ Containerization ❌ Push container to remote

And now? Next steps!

It is not always clear which automation tasks should be prioritized. It is however important to balance your automation efforts, as a uniform level of maturity is most productive. I'm here to help! Below is a list of tasks that you can work on to help level up your maturity across the automation domains:

• Implement Package management; implemented by 36% of GitHub repositories
• Implement Source code version control; implemented by 4% of GitHub repositories

What do you think?

Do you think my analysis is correct and do these recommendations help you? Or have I missed something?

For my master's thesis I'm doing research into the use of automations in GitHub repositories. With my findings, I want to see if I can help out developers with what automations they could focus on. Do you want to help me out? Leaving a response is much appreciated!