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by svick 1654 days ago
How do you differentiate between "actually abandoned and probably dangerous" and "actively maintained, but updated only very rarely, because there's nothing left to do"?
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By reputation, adoption, type of changes being made (e.g. "implemented correct alphabetical ordering with proper normalization" is less mature than "updated to latest Unicode standard, Cypro-Minoan is now allowed"), update schedules (e.g. once or twice a year right after someone opens an infrequent issue vs. once or twice a year during the maintainer's vacations), type of issues that remain open (e.g. "crashes if the description is too long", answer "use a shorter description", is less mature than "bad-looking text wrapping if the description is too long", answer "default column widths are compact, but you can customize them").