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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Empirical catalogue of 38 adverse events in 105 open-source projects finds 46% rate for single-vendor venture-backed projects versus 2.5% for foundation-governed projects, with a proposed six-field decision instrument for component selection.
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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.
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Empirical catalogue of 38 adverse events in 105 open-source projects finds 46% rate for single-vendor venture-backed projects versus 2.5% for foundation-governed projects, with a proposed six-field decision instrument for component selection.