Working in open source software (OSS) sometimes feels like running on a treadmill that never stops. The projects you depend on keep moving, but if you miss a step, you get flung off the back. For many developers, it’s an endless race to keep up with shifting dependencies, urgent common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) and new features.
But not all open source moves at that speed. It exists on a spectrum from fast-moving, feature-rich projects to quietly abandoned ones. In between lies the most overlooked category: software that is…
