note: I wrote this for our internal documentation & guidelines at Embark so not all of it is likely relevant for other companies, but sharing here as others expressed interest in seeing it
What to evaluate and consider before adding usage of new third-party crates.
These are not exact requirements but questions to investigate and discuss to help reason around the health, safety, maintainability, and more around crates.
This can also be read as an opinionated guide for crate authors of what our (Embark's) guidelines and recommendations are, though should not be taken too literally.