I have a corollary about that: it's not open source if I can't build it Now there's for sure a spectrum there, since "can't" could mean a lot of different thin

I have a corollary about that: it's not open source if I can't build it Now there's for sure a spectrum there, since "can't" could mean a lot of different things to different people, but a good straight-face test is whether they have a CI build specification in the public repo since building in CI and a newcomer trying to build the repo often have very overlapping concerns