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This paper aims to propose a concept of \u201chealth\u201d indicators and an evaluation process that can help to get a status overview of OSS projects in a timely fashion and predict project survivability based on the project data available on web repositories.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p>For initial empirical evaluation of the concept, the indicators are applied to well\u2010known web\u2010based OSS projects (Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTP Server) and the results are compared with challenged projects (Apache Xindice and Apache Slide). The results are discussed with OSS experts to investigate the external validity of the indicators.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p>From a software project management point of view, a typical web\u2010based OSS project can be viewed as a web\u2010engineering process, since most OSS projects exploit the benefits of a web platform and enable the project community to collaborate using web\u2010based project tools and repositories such as mailing lists, bug trackers, and versioning systems (CVS\/SVN) to deliver web systems and applications. 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