Should I use this REPO? Tips and tricks to avoid time losing and buggy code!
If you are a developer you will surely have used code from public repo (you do not reinvent the wheel every time or do you?), and sometimes you would have wanted to give that repo a second gaze because now you find yourself stuck with a bunch of unsupported buggy code.
Since I ran into a similar situation recently I decided I want to turn this annoying loss of time into a learning experience, so...
what do you look first in a repo you are planning to use, and which are the red flags you cannot ignore?
I look for signals of an actively maintained project with a decent community around it. These are:
Depending on how important the library is, I'm more strict/lenient with requirements. For example, a pub/sub library on top of Redis is critical to the system while a code coverage lib is less important.
Red flags for me are: