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User:Theoa/Web Site Selection Criteria

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What is a sufficient amount of notability for open source software?

  • Have their own Wikipedia entry that has withstood the deletionists means OK. ;-)

Other criteria might include:

  • Own URL
  • Permanent mention on a home page
  • Watched by Alexa Internet, Quantcast or Compete
  • Worked on by a team of developers - no single developer makes over 50% of the commits.
  • Source code on GitHub, Source Forge etc and well-watched and forked
  • Reviewed by more than one journal
  • Posted on Reddit/Digg/Hacker News/
  • Dedicated mailing list/Google Group/Forum
  • The outcome of a public or private grant
  • The outcome of an academic thesis or dissertation
  • The outcome of a humanitarian effort
  • Indexed in a textbook
  • Of sufficient complexity or beauty
  • Used as an example in peer-reviewed academic paper
  • Won a prize or award
  • Has bug-tracking and issue resolution
  • Has Documentation, FAQ and support
  • Retains older versions, maintains a history of revisions, records
  • Has a public infrastructure that decides, manages, road maps, has project management
  • Open accounts, workable business model
  • Road map, manifesto
  • Elegant programming style
  • Nice license
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