Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
Source: News.Ycombinator
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<p>Weekend at Bernie’s showed that a good chunk of the most-depended-on open source packages are dead, and there are a lot of different ways for a project to end up that way.</p> <p>Ghost maintainer. The simplest and most common case: last human commit some years back, issues accumulating unanswered