Evergreen ILS Project

The Project

The EverGreen site claims it is a: "highly-scalable software for libraries that helps library patrons find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries."

Evaluation Scoring

Evaluation Factor	Level (0-2)	Evaluation Data
Licensing	2	Evergreen claims to be under the GNU GPL, "version 2 or better".
Language	???	For a breakdown of Evergreen's languages, look here. It primarily utilizes SQL (29%), JavaScript (23.9), Perl (21.4), XML (11.2), and C (7.5).
Level of Activity
Number of Contributors	2	from the Evergreen "about" page: "The Evergreen development community is still growing, with about eleven active committers and roughly 80 individuals who have contributed patches (as of April, 2016)."
Product Size	2	Evergreen is a large project, with over 500,000 lines of code. For a breakdown, look here.
Issue Tracker		The Evergreen bug tracker has over 1,000 reported bugs. However, some - even those ranked high in important, either do not get resolved, or get resolved slowly. There are only 14 bugs with patches. Either Evergreen does not patch a lot of bugs, or does not report the patching.
New Contributor	2	Evergreen has instructions for New contributors, including IRc chat, mailing lists, Facebook, etc. here
Community Norms	1	The evergreen community appears respectful and professional, but I was unable to find stated rules. For reference, view the bug tracker or any other communication avenue on the "about" page.
User Base
Total Score