My/Pref/Dev/Tool/Prefer Well-Maintained Projects

• Prefer Well-Maintained Projects

  • Prefer a dependency that passes two separate tests — a credible maintainer and healthy maintenance. Both matter; neither alone is enough.

  • Credible maintainer

    • Either an established individual with a track record of open-source contributions (for example Person/Jeff Dickey behind mise), or institutional backing that signals the project will not be abandoned. Either qualifies.

  • Healthy maintenance

    • Judged on its own, independent of who makes it: recent commits, responsiveness to issues, and a low bus-factor. Stars are not maintenance — a popular project from a new, unproven maintainer is a decision point, not an automatic pass.