As for actively maintained modules, you're right. If all the bugs are out and the module has the complete feature set intended by the authors, there's no reason to rate the module down for not being updated recently.

The rest of your points I'll not mention specifically because I have no disagreement nor comments to expand on your reasoning.

What would you think of a web page with a table listing ratings for all of these things for all of, say, the PDF tool sets? I'm not sure that's the ultimate solution that I'm looking for, but it's one of the ideas that comes to mind. Of course, one might want empirical measures present separately from subjective ones or given more weight, but those are implementation details.

In reply to Re^2: How does one choose among modules? by mr_mischief
in thread How does one choose among modules? by mr_mischief

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