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 depends on what kind of OSS. Bigger things I search for comparison sites. For things under a package manager, I search that. There are also "awesome" repositories in GitHub that have a curated list of tools for various ecosystems.