It almost feels like it's easier to list which fundamental projects have more than one active maintainer.
Many of the core library and tools are mostly finished and have very little yearly activity. How many maintainers does a project have if the last activity was one or two commits made or maybe just merged by one maintainer 3 years ago, and few more 5 years ago. Does it count as 2 maintainers, 1 maintainer, 0 maintainers? Does the "maintainer" from 5 years ago still have commit permission and how likely are they to get involved if some merge requests show up.
Even for active projects it's very common for 90% of work being done by one main maintainer.
> Many of the core library and tools are mostly finished and have very little yearly activity
Yeah. The ad-hoc, de-facto "Standard Library" for JavaScript, the "web", and fullstack web apps.
OSS ecosystem is sometimes so very "Down and out in the magic Kingdom" adhocracy like. Shame we haven't got the rest of the Bitchun' society's perks. :) hahaha!
Many of the core library and tools are mostly finished and have very little yearly activity. How many maintainers does a project have if the last activity was one or two commits made or maybe just merged by one maintainer 3 years ago, and few more 5 years ago. Does it count as 2 maintainers, 1 maintainer, 0 maintainers? Does the "maintainer" from 5 years ago still have commit permission and how likely are they to get involved if some merge requests show up.
Even for active projects it's very common for 90% of work being done by one main maintainer.