Measuring FAIL: A Scorecard for Evaluating Open Source Projects

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 17, 2010 9:12 PM EDT
OStatic; By Joe Brockmeier
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Ever wonder whether a given FLOSS project is going to succeed or flounder? Need a little help reading the tea leaves? Now you can follow along at home with a handy scorecard that looks at everything from source control to project communication. A little history. I was researching a project yesterday that required potential users and contributors to pull source from a Git repository, rather than simply downloading a zip file or tarball with the source and other materials that users would need. I mentioned this on Twitter, and Karsten Wade of the Fedora project pointed out the scorecard on the newly launched guide to helping people learn to interact with and build community, Open Source Way.

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