Intrinsic durability
12 / 33
Industrial solutions
4 / 15
Strategy
2 / 9
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Sheet: Possible label: Silver
Stats: Mandatory 9 / 9,  Recommended 0 / 17,  Free 4 / 48


Assenssment: Possible label: Silver
Stats: Durability: 12 / 33, Industrial: 4 / 15, Strategy: 2 / 9

Intrinsic durability
Age More than 3 years
Stability
History, known problems No known major problem or crisis
Popularity (at its scale) Detectable use on Internet (sourceforge, freshmeat, google…)
References None
Contributing community Existing community with a notable activity
Books More than 3 books about the software are available, in several languages
Developers identification and turnover >7 developers, clearly identified, very stable team
Activity on bugs Detectable activity but without process clearly exposed, long reaction/resolution time
Activity on releases Activity on production and development releases. Frequent minor releases (bug fixes)
Independence of developments 60% maximum

Industrial solutions
Training No offer of training identified
Support No offer of support except via public forums and mailing lists
Consulting No offer of consulting service
Documentation Documentation always up to date, translated and possibly adapted to different target readers (end user, sysadmin, manager, ?)
Tools Very active use of tools for roles/tasks allocation and progress monitoring

Strategy
Roadmap Existing roadmap without planning
Sponsorship Software has no sponsor, the core team is not paid
Strategic independence Strategic vision shared with several other projects but without strong commitment from copyrights owners