User:Theoa/Web Site Selection Criteria

What is a sufficient amount of notability for open source software?


 * Have their own Wikipedia entry that has withstood the deletionists means OK. ;-)

Other criteria might include:


 * Own URL
 * Permanent mention on a home page
 * Watched by Alexa Internet, Quantcast or Compete
 * Worked on by a team of developers - no single developer makes over 50% of the commits.
 * Source code on GitHub, Source Forge etc and well-watched and forked
 * Reviewed by more than one journal
 * Posted on Reddit/Digg/Hacker News/
 * Dedicated mailing list/Google Group/Forum
 * The outcome of a public or private grant
 * The outcome of an academic thesis or dissertation
 * The outcome of a humanitarian effort
 * Indexed in a textbook
 * Of sufficient complexity or beauty
 * Used as an example in peer-reviewed academic paper
 * Won a prize or award
 * Has bug-tracking and issue resolution
 * Has Documentation, FAQ and support
 * Retains older versions, maintains a history of revisions, records
 * Has a public infrastructure that decides, manages, road maps, has project management
 * Open accounts, workable business model
 * Road map, manifesto
 * Elegant programming style
 * Nice license