Large-scale analysis of inactive GitHub repositories shows open source projects die primarily from insufficient value and ecosystem dynamics, not from pull request workflow problems, despite a common pattern of declining activity.
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Survival analysis of 73k GitHub repositories finds human capital critical for survival while social popularity plus accessibility features raises inactivity risk, with contributor count moderating the effect.
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The Death Spiral of Open Source Projects: A Post-Mortem Analysis of Pull Request Workflow Dynamics
Large-scale analysis of inactive GitHub repositories shows open source projects die primarily from insufficient value and ecosystem dynamics, not from pull request workflow problems, despite a common pattern of declining activity.