Open hub - a quick way to check on open source projects

https://www.openhub.net

So you have a new project. Management says "all tools and frameworks have to be free. Use Open Source"
the Geek in you says, rather softly Open source and free are not the same. Anyways, you safe the long lecture for another day and get back to your desk.
Your task at hand is to select the tools needed.

you obviously want to use the best and easiest thing to build and maintain. you google around and there are tons of options for each task you want to accomplish. you stop by stack overflow or Quora and ask for suggestions. read through pages of recommendations and preferences. you are still not sure of the choice as the engineer in you wants choices based on reason and backed by evidence.

That is where https://www.openhub.net comes in.
This site shows you the health of open source projects expressed in few parameters.
you can now analyse and choose the one that suits you.
you now also have solid evidence to back you option with.


and if the management chooses a tool out of thin air and force you to use it, as they sometimes do, then you are on you own.

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