Integrate introp testing suite output?

[andrewgdotcom]

We should consider how we can best indicate to site visitors the health/activity of projects listed on the various pages. It would be preferable if this was done using some reasonably objective mechanism, and better still if this was automated/unattended. One suggestion is that we could use the output of the interop test suite (https://sequoia-pgp.gitlab.io/openpgp-interoperability-test-suite/results.html).

[hko-s]

While I find it a useful idea to integrate the Interop Suite output into o.o, in some manner, I'd be hesitant to present it as a quantified measure of a library's properties (the test suite itself warns against that approach to its output, after all).

My suggestion for a straightforward next step would be to define some cutoff date (i'd suggest 1.1.2020), and move all entries that haven't seen movement in their source repos since that cutoff date to a list of "sleeping OpenPGP software".

[hko-s]

If that approach sounds reasonable, then I could start prepare a PR for it soonish

[andrewgdotcom]

That sounds like a reasonable first step, however this would only apply to open source software...

[hko-s]

Agreed that the approach doesn't neatly apply to closed source software. However, I'm hoping that in practice we could find sufficiently serviceable alternative metrics (such as recent releases). But sure, that's a gray area, and it can't be conclusively un-greyed, as I see it. I'd favor a best effort approach of guesstimating "seems to be worked on".

We'd also probably not count merely "cosmetic" commits on open source projects (e.g. a project where only the .gitignore file has been changed since 1.1.2020)