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

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Post by udev4096 » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:36 AM UTC

I can think of sudo (https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/graphs/contributors) which is maintained by just one person and is being used by every major linux distribution

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Post by jamiehewitt » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 8:47 AM UTC

Mocha js testing framework is widely used and maintained by a small team https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/issues/5027

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Post by robthebrew » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 9:05 AM UTC

curl

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Post by shprd » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 9:06 AM UTC

- 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

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Post by lipitic » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 9:48 AM UTC

husky (git hooks) https://github.com/typicode/husky

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Post by suman99pro » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 9:59 AM UTC

Linux Kernel

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Post by nolok » Mon, Sep 09, 2024, 10:06 AM UTC

If you really want to dwelve into this, while the applications have plenty of cases let's not forget the underlying libraries that "everyone" depends on.