[colug-432] Unfotunate Incomplete Projects

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:45:54PM -0400, Jacob Ulrich wrote:
> What do you do if there was a project on GitHub that you were looking 
> forward to but it never got complete and the developer stopped 
> committing? Also at the same time you don't know how to develop said 
> project yourself. Could you hire a freelancer to complete it even if 
> it's a project you know nothing about?

Jacob,

You could hire someone to do the work, or you could look for an
alternative.  I have found that nearly every project on GitHub (or
BitBucket, SourceForge, etc.) has a good 2 or 3, if not more, projects
that resemble it.  I have actually had good luck with this, where I have
found a project that appeared to have been abandoned but I was able to
find a fork or "competing" project that was still active and close to
what I needed.

Of course, YMMV depending on the specific project, the problem domain,
and a multitude of other factors.

Regards,

-Roberto

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