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The entire industry is broken regarding this fact. Old tested/working software developed for 10 years, dozen contributors spanning the entire history but with
by bsdubernerd 6y ago
The entire industry is broken regarding this fact.
Old tested/working software developed for 10 years, dozen contributors spanning the entire history but with a last commit older than 12 months on github? Dead project. Heck reading on HN I've seen this comment even for projects having commits longer than 6 months!
People will favor a buggy/featureless project with a single lead dev all the time, just based on this.
- giantDinosaur 6y agoThe signal is very much not that software with no commits is bad, it's just very common to have half-finished projects or very buggy packages which are no longer maintained. I'd say the quantity of those greatly outweighs the quantity without relatively recent commits which are good. This means that, as a very coarse heuristic, it's probably a good idea to be fairly skeptical of projects without somewhat recent commits, if only they're to keep up with the latest npm update or whatever.
- jonnypotty 6y agoNo one would need to make guesses like this if anyone knew how our software worked.
- treeman79 6y agoStand alone code isn’t big deal. Code that has dozens of dependencies is a whole other matter. I had to bring in a 5 year old, since last commit, library. On its on it was fine. But the dependencies were a massive pain.