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A comment on Ask HN: Does anyone investigate open source packages before using in prod?.

Re:Ask HN: Does anyone investigate open source packages befo... by bluGill on Thursday June 25, 2020 @09:44PM (#23647893)
Yes, if there are no commits at all I know I'm stuck maintaining it.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone investigate open source packages befo... by sigjuice on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:45PM (#23655455)
Or it could be mature and stable software that doesn't need constant maintaining.
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Re:Ask HN: Does anyone investigate open source packages befo... by bluGill on Monday June 29, 2020 @10:12AM (#23677771)
Maybe, but then I'd expect a small number of bug fix commits. Most software never matures in that way.
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