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Open Source is one person

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didgetmaster ◴[] No.45052400[source]
Has anyone seen any stats on what happens to a single maintainer project when said person is hit by a bus (or meets some other demise)? With that many data points, there should be enough of them by now to study it.

Is the project taken over by another, single developer? Is it replaced by a similar project? Does it just go away?

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1. qn9n ◴[] No.45062323[source]
When Bram passed away Vim was passed on to the core maintainers there.