Heh. How long does apt-cache search take. Kidding, and I do recall that being a real problem for most things at one point. You'd go to FreshMeat and just hope t

Heh. How long does apt-cache search take. Kidding, and I do recall that being a real problem for most things at one point. You'd go to FreshMeat and just hope that the highest rated one was good. But, re: apt, if it gets in the main repo, then I'm hard-pressed to think I'm smarter than all those people. That said, for some classes of software, Drupal plugins and Minecraft mods come to mind, are all varying degrees of abysmal. Those take a lot longer to sort through. Things like "evidence based scheduling" and your permutations around "velocity" and burndown charts seem to help, particularly over time, but I've found no magic bullet.