Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
Summary
The post analyzes how open source projects die, outlining common paths to abandonment (ghost maintainer, corporate or thesis-related orphaning, funding cuts, or being hired away) and ongoing issues (burnout, zombie maintainers, governance fights, sabotage). It also covers failures in the release pipeline and external forces (platform changes, dependencies) that contribute to death, finishing with a reflection that the same outcomes persist across different scenarios.