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paulkretoday at 8:55 AM2 repliesview on HN

Maintenance-mode is very different from "THIS REPOSITORY IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED".


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jychangtoday at 8:59 AM

Yes, the difference is the latter means "it is no longer maintained", and the former is "they claim to be maintaining it but everyone knows it's not really being maintained".

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embedding-shapetoday at 9:01 AM

Given the context is a for-profit company who is moving away from FOSS, I'm not sure the distinction matters so much, everyone understands what the first one means already.