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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by maw on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:13PM (#32989844)
When evaluating libraries, recent activity is one of the things I look at. It's a far from perfect heuristic. I've probably rejected libraries like yours for what amounts to no very good reason.

I don't know if this is a good suggestion or not but I wonder if some form of "keepalive commit" might help here. I can imagine a few ways they might work, some simple, some more elaborate.

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Re:Outdated vs. Complete: In defense of apps that don’t need... by nerdponx on Monday September 26, 2022 @07:33PM (#32990012)
I don't check the commit history, I check the issue tracker. If something has unmerged bugfix patches from 3 years ago without any comment from the maintainer, I assume that it's just not being maintained.
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