Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die

Get hired elsewhere
Accept PRs that came out of thin air
Import libraries, that’s out of date
Hold opinions that are filled with hate

Dumb ways to die 👯
So many dumb ways to die

Compete directly with a fork
Do your own encryption work
Let Claude code, without review
I wonder what this red button do?

Dumb ways to die 👯
So many dumb ways to die

There’s also the projects that people think are dead because they haven’t seen any significant updates in some time. But in actuality there just hasn’t been any need to make changes. The code works, is mature, and feature complete. Unlike proprietary software there isn’t any pressure make changes for the sake of change to convince everyone they need to buy it over again, so once the code becomes stable development naturally will slow down.

Ive seen this many MANY times. But I think people forget that most open source are passion projects.

You are owed nothing at all when someone publishes their code on the internet. Thats what it is, its just an instruction manual to do a thing. Unless you pay something for the privilege of support, complaints will do next to nothing. Even now on lemmy/piefed/fedi.

So good to finally have a label for what went wrong with Drupal!

Stranded major

Fuck now the song is stuck in my head