On 28/07/2017 00:27, p...@getaroundtoit.co.uk wrote: > S, (Andy and Mike) > > Yes, you've hit a couple of pertinent points; and it might make for an > interesting project. > > However, I was looking for a check-list or similar which I can give to > the pertinent dev.teams to ensure that they are 'covering all the bases' > - whereas the question: "have you checked 'everything'?" produces a > rather predictable response. > > I'm thinking someone wiser than I will have written these things down - > just can't find such... > >
As a starting point, my personal mini-checklist, for considering including packages: 1. Licensing: Is the project only ever going to be internal? If there is any chance of it's being included in a commercial deliverable then the licence and all of it's dependencies must be "Apache or better" and have a chart of the acceptable permissive licences vs. usage. Basically the licences that we generally have green flags for are MIT, BSD, CC-BY, MMS-PL & PSF. With some yellow flags on Artistic/Perl & Apache. 2. A quick look at the project repository for indications of activity such as recent check-ins, outstanding tickets, age of pull requests, discussion levels & tone on tickets. (Call this an abandonware check). 3. The reputation, on-line & off, of the authors & maintainers. 4. Is it hosted on a host that hasn't announced its own demise. 5. Test coverage &/or Coverity 6. Do the requirements look reasonable for the nature of the package, e.g. I wouldn't expect network or server type dependencies in a screen shot package. 7. Ditto the imports 8. If there are none-Python elements are they about what I would expect, i.e. things that you would expect performance issues with? 9. Support for Python 3 & 2 or at least a clear statement. -- Steve (Gadget) Barnes Any opinions in this message are my personal opinions and do not reflect those of my employer. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
