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Submission Guidelines
To avoid the clutter trap that many other lists succumb to as they scale, only the best software is included. But "best" is relative and differs person-to-person. Here, it's mostly guaged based on five criteria. Keep in mind every "guideline" is more of a suggestion and can be skirted, thus, pay greater attention to the real-life examples I've included - they do a much better job of articulating what makes it onto this list.
1. Popularity
Projects with over 5000 stars are preferred. Popularity is far from the best method, but people use specific software for a reason - probably because it's halfway decent. Again, this isn't foolproof. People can be allergic to change and there's plenty of times where a piece of software is blatantly better than an alternative but the majority use the latter because they either aren't aware or just don't care.
Note: Criteria [2,3,4] are closely intertwined
2. A Foundation
The project should have a solid foundation:
- A solid set of contributors, not neccesarily in quality but commitment
3. Activity
The project must show signs of recent activity. Abandoned software will not be placed on this list - no expections.
4. Future Proof
Going alongside the above criteria, the project must have consistent activity and evidence of a future.
5. Quality
Lastly, is the software decent?