I will not even possibly consider introducing a 3rd party dependency unless it has one of the following: 1. A reasonably release cadence of packages (APT/PPA/

I will not even possibly consider introducing a 3rd party dependency unless it has one of the following: 1. A reasonably release cadence of packages (APT/PPA/RPM). 2. A well defined release cycle with a sane download path (for tarballs). 3. Obvious community support by way of GitHub stars, pull requests, issues. That said, in the traditional adoption curve, I am somewhere between 'late majority' and 'laggard'. Mostly because I don't have time to evaluate most things.