Anyone know of research on how people “discover” new open source that they want to use? Does one search GitHub for strings relevant to what they are looking for? See code used in other projects? Are there other registries?
@allanfriedman I think that end-users wind up via word of mouth, recommendations from some tech article, or even youtube sponsorship ("odoo" for example). I wouldn't start with github, because it's search is terrible, it will confuse with overloaded uses of the terms, etc. I'm sure that there are many PHB's {now called "vibe" coders}, who will go to github, get totally confused, and then post queries to the wrong project ML, having ignored _How to Ask Questions the Smart Way_