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11 of 23 core open-source projects rely on one or two regular contributors

linuxstans.com 13 min read Editor score 7/10

An analysis of 23 infrastructure projects counted contributors with at least ten changes in the past year and found that 11 had only one or two. The concentration highlights maintenance risk in dependencies that phones, browsers and servers rely on.

What

- An analysis examined contribution histories for 23 open-source projects used by phones, browsers, and servers.

How

- Eleven projects had just one or two regular contributors, defined as people making at least ten changes in the year studied.

Why it matters

- Concentrated maintenance creates infrastructure risk; engineers should account for contributor capacity and funding when relying on critical dependencies.

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