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433 points LawnGnome | 1 comments | 28 Aug 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.245s | 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

1. paulddraper ◴[28 Aug 25 22:12 UTC] No.45057634[source]▶

Can you provide an example?

A perfected software that had existed >5 years with zero updates, tweaks, ports, or fixes?

Open Source is one person