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?
R.I.Pienaar@allanfriedman I miss freshmeat.net. (Old registry of OSS projects, think yahoo catalog)
@allanfriedman I also miss the time when the idea of a registry was even sensible - as owner of one of the biggest “awesome lists” I am pretty sure it can never work.
But mostly the answer now is go digging around awesome lists.