Allan FriedmanAnyone 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?
Jean-Baptiste Maillet@allanfriedman I'm not aware of any formal academic study on that.
But as for me, it depends on the codebase / ecosystem I'm working with. There are some registries for that:
Ex if I work in Python, that will be PyPI, the Python Package Indexer:
https://pypi.org/
For Rust, crates.io:
https://crates.io/
For Go:
https://pkg.go.dev/
Of course also searching or google searching on GitHub.
etc. Plus technological survey, most important for me since I'm working on embedded products = 95% C/C++ = no de facto package manager = no de facto package registry. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
