FOSS-POF (Free or Open Source Software Points Of Fail) is a simple app to self-analyse your Open Source Project and help you take the necessary measures to prevent it from being doomed to fail.
Through a list of points that you can check according to the characteristics of your Open Source project, you will obtain a result that indicates whether your software is doomed to fail.
Those points were originally written by Tom 'spot' Callaway and are used here under the MIT license. The work How you know your Free or Open Source Software Project is doomed to FAIL (or at least, held back from success) originally appeared on 2009-05-29 at this URL: http://spot.livejournal.com/308370.html
This was inspired by Spot's initial efforts to look at Chromium, but these are just some of the red flags he generally has observed over the years, now written down.
There are obvious exceptions, such as the Linux kernel. Generally these exceptions work because they started out small and the community and code grew together. Large complexity requires a large community. Starting a new project with lots of complexity makes it exceedingly hard to build up a community.
- Clone the source code
git clone https://github.com/s3rrot/foss-pof.git
- Install development dependencies
yarn install
- Run a local development server (including hot-reload)
yarn serve
FOSS-POF is now running, and can be accessed by pointing a web browser at http://localhost:8080/
The FOSS-POF project is available under the MIT License.
How to tell if a FLOSS project is doomed to FAIL CC BY SA 3.0 license