> But when I looked at the mailing list for the project, I saw a wasteland of good patches that were completely ignored, where the submitter would ping the list a couple times and then give up. Did it seem worth spending a week to disentangle our IP from the project in order to submit a set of patches that would, in all likelihood, get ignored? No.
Sounds like the OP should have checked activity levels first ...then decided not to spend the extra time.
When I look at using open source for something I often use the following to determine if I should use it:
a) does it have the functionality I need today
b) is it active and being maintained ( through frequency of updates, active mailing list, sometime a financial sponsor (bigco who uses it))
Sounds like the OP should have checked activity levels first ...then decided not to spend the extra time.
When I look at using open source for something I often use the following to determine if I should use it:
a) does it have the functionality I need today
b) is it active and being maintained ( through frequency of updates, active mailing list, sometime a financial sponsor (bigco who uses it))