One thing I&#x27;ve gotten into the habit of doing is looking around the commit history and issue list for any package I import.  Was it something somebody wrote in a hurry and hasn&#x27;t really touched since?  Is it something that has a solid set of regular contributors?  Are there a lot of outstanding issues relative to how heavily used it is?<p>I also spend more time actually reading through specs to see how well they exercise the code.<p>That&#x27;s probably standard procedure for a lot of people, but it&#x27;s something that I had to learn to always do.