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For my immediate team I required that a FOSS project be: 1) alive and well - judging by the number and recency of contributions; 2) modular - monolithic binari
by fishnchips 12y ago
For my immediate team I required that a FOSS project be:
1) alive and well - judging by the number and recency of contributions;
2) modular - monolithic binaries are a no-no but libraries are generally fine;
3) use one of the few languages well supported by the existing build system;
Once we started using those guidelines most FOSS projects we considered were dead in the water. (so were most commercial products BTW).
The only thing is that even though my immediate team saw the benefit of this approach once I started talking about it in a wider circle my approach was considered an extreme case of NIH.