Intrinsic durability
10 / 33
Industrial solutions
3 / 15
Strategy
3 / 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: 10 / 33, Industrial: 3 / 15, Strategy: 3 / 9

Intrinsic durability
Age More than 3 years
Stability Unstable software with numerous releases or patches generating slide effects
History, known problems No known major problem or crisis
Popularity (at its scale) Detectable use on Internet (sourceforge, freshmeat, google…)
References Few references, non critical usages
Contributing community No community or without real activity (forum, mailing lists…)
Books No book about the software
Developers identification and turnover 4 to 7 developers, or more unidentified developers with important turnover
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 20% 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 Standard tools provided (for instance by a hosting forge) but poorly used

Strategy
Roadmap Versioned roadmap, with planning and measure of delays
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