[lmeyerov]

GitHub stats -- if I remember right, if a project lasts more than ~1 year, the odds are it'll keep lasting, and you can redo the exercise every year or two

'few devs vs despite' matters a bit less when picking: it's the results + future expectation, irrespective of how :)

'how' is interesting . having observed dedicated oss devs owning a proj for years vs contracted devs working through tasks for their latest gig, I have unsurprising theories. Trickier is when going sustainable via revenue (which we do), how to keep that sense of ownership, vs usual employee code: industry increasingly adopts OSS practices like GitHub flow, but that misses much of the OSS maintainer magic.