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Open Source is one person

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433 points LawnGnome | 4 comments | 28 Aug 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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blueflow ◴[28 Aug 25 09:58 UTC] No.45050331[source]▶
If they had done an activity check they would have seen that half of all projects have zero maintainers.
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ysofunny ◴[28 Aug 25 12:21 UTC] No.45051284[source]▶
software once "perfected" (working well enough long enough) needs NO maintenance. No cleaning. No calibrating/tunning.

updating is a systemic issue, not a per-project matter

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1. M95D ◴[28 Aug 25 19:42 UTC] No.45056222[source]▶
Nicely said, but the reality is that no software is "perfected", just abandoned.

Hell, even sysvinit had some big updates recently.

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2. cenamus ◴[28 Aug 25 19:52 UTC] No.45056318[source]▶
qmail

Also many common lisp packages, 15-20 years old and work perfectly fine.

3. supportengineer ◴[28 Aug 25 19:52 UTC] No.45056316[source]▶
qmail, djbdns, grep, awk, sed, TeX, SQLite, zlib, curl
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4. blueflow ◴[29 Aug 25 09:26 UTC] No.45061963[source]▶
runit. Every other year someone forks it because they think its abandoned, make some commits for some weeks, and then find nothing else to change and start to look abandoned themselves.