Open Source is one person
13 days ago
- #maintainers
- #supply-chain
- #open-source
- The article criticizes a story by The Register for unfairly targeting a Russian open-source developer.
- Most open-source projects (7 million out of 11.8 million) are maintained by a single person.
- Even popular projects with over 1 million downloads are often maintained by one person (about 50% in NPM).
- The article argues that the real risk in open-source is underpaid and overworked maintainers, not their nationality.
- Demonizing single maintainers is not a solution to open-source sustainability issues.