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Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Re: Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Post by pledg »

shprd wrote: post #4

- curl: Daniel Stenberg et al. - https://github.com/orgs/curl/people - Lua (programming language): team of 3 - https://www.lua.org/authors.html - openssl: 15 people - https://github.com/orgs/openssl/people maybe also: sqlite, vim, nginx, redis

There's 724 people listed as contributors on the redis GitHub.

Re: Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Post by mdtrooper »

People used to fight for upstream factories to return the water they used clean to the river. It was an ecologist's fight.

Now corporations do projects with 5 or more zeroes in budget and a high percentage of the code is free software or open source. And they give 0 back to free or open projects that they parasite.

I wrote an article years ago in my blog (in Spanish, sorry), "Free software has failed": https://tomatesasesinos.com/2019/07/11/el-software-libre-ha-...

Re: Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Post by ericyd »

mdtrooper wrote: post #83

People used to fight for upstream factories to return the water they used clean to the river. It was an ecologist's fight. Now corporations do projects with 5 or more zeroes in budget and a high percentage of the code is free software or open source. And they give 0 back to free or open projects that they parasite. I wrote an article years ago in my blog (in Spanish, sorry), "Free software has failed": https://tomate…

I think this belongs under "Show HN: My Tangentially Related Thoughts"

Re: Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Post by latexr »

regularfry wrote: post #69
latexr wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which seems wholly unnecessary. The way I understand it, having only the starting year is sufficient.

Absent any changes in a year, the copyright year shouldn't be updated. Otherwise what you're claiming is that the copyright term starts from a date after creation of the content, so it's getting artificially extended.

The change in question isn’t about going from “Copyright (C) 2023” to “Copyright (C) 2024” but from “Copyright (C) 1998-2023” to “Copyright (C) 1998-2024”. Thus your case doesn’t apply, it’s not confusing. What I’m saying is that as far as I understand, having “Copyright (C) 1998” and not changing it would suffice.

Re: Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Post by devinprater »

Edit: I missed the "widely used" part.

[Orca](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca). Very important for blind Linux desktop users. If you like frameworks more, [ATSPI](https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2-core), or [AccessKit](https://accesskit.dev/) may fit you more. Or, if you like contributing others' apps, take a look at how you could make them more accessible, with these [Tips for application developers](https://github.com/GNOME/orca/blob/main/README-APPLICATION-D...).

Re: Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

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Post by shprd »

pledg wrote: post #81
shprd wrote: post #4

- curl: Daniel Stenberg et al. - https://github.com/orgs/curl/people - Lua (programming language): team of 3 - https://www.lua.org/authors.html - openssl: 15 people - https://github.com/orgs/openssl/people maybe also: sqlite, vim, nginx, redis

There's 724 people listed as contributors on the redis GitHub.

Right, but the question is concerned with the number of maintainers. The people who play some role, not just passing by.

Redis team consists of 8 people: https://github.com/orgs/redis/people

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