What's a rubric without subjective, ill-defined measures?
Here's my list:
1. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
I'm interested in code that contains something useful. If I pick up an open-source project, I'd better be damned ready to support it myself, to the extent that it remains valuable to me.
That's how we did things in the PS (Pre-Stallman) era, and they worked Just Fine.
Damn it, where's jake when I need a fellow curmudgeon?