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-Please note that this repository is participating in a study into the sustainability of open source projects. Data will be gathered about this repository for approximately the next 12 months, starting from 2021-06-11.
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-Data collected will include the number of contributors, number of PRs, time taken to close/merge these PRs, and issues closed.
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-For more information, please visit
-[our informational page](https://sustainable-open-science-and-software.github.io/) or download our [participant information sheet](https://sustainable-open-science-and-software.github.io/assets/PIS_sustainable_software.pdf).
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 # [JupyterHub](https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyterhub)
 
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