alt Hacker NewsIf nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them? In which case, does it really matter?
If we need them, and they’re not being maintained, then maybe that’s the kind of “scream test” wake up we need for them to either be properly deprecated, or updated.
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mort96 • today at 9:30 AM
How much ongoing development effort do you think goes into, say, something like a gzip encoder?
> If nobody is maintaining them, do we really need them?
Given how often issues can be traced back to open source projects barely scraping along? Yes and they are probably doing something important. Hell, if you create enough pointless busywork you can probably get a few more "helpfull" hackers into projects like xz.