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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Study of 362 Java projects finds MySQL and PostgreSQL dominate relational use while Redis and MongoDB lead non-relational, with frequent multi-DBM co-use and ORM mediation.
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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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Analyzing the Adoption of Database Management Systems Throughout the History of Open Source Projects
Study of 362 Java projects finds MySQL and PostgreSQL dominate relational use while Redis and MongoDB lead non-relational, with frequent multi-DBM co-use and ORM mediation.