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> 1. It is still alive A mature project that just works does not need new commits.

• deleted 9y ago
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• mort96 9y ago
  True, a project with a bunch of stars and ownloads and whatnot and no open issues and pull requests can be perfectly fine even if the last commit was a few years ago. However, if the last commit was years ago, and issues and pull requests have been piling up without getting any attention, that's probably a bad sign.
• bartread 9y ago
  That's true, but whether a project is alive or not goes beyond whether people are committing code. E.g., - If you file a bug report does the bug get fixed? Do you even get a response? - If you ask for help from the community, do you get it?
• aetherspawn 9y ago
  You can determine that by ie looking at the issues list and eyeballing whether there are pages of issues with no comments on them. Not necessarily whether there are commits or not.