| I'm not surprised at all. I bet there are plenty of multi-billion dollars companies using that project who never contributed a cent to its author yet sent their developers on GitHub to complain about the state of the project. It happened to a few maintainers I know. These companies save millions in development cost on the back of a few developers in developed countries. This is open source, I get it, but this isn't fair either. Look at that comment: > ....yikes. Sounds like a fork needs to happen. And github should really look to provide a 'risk' rating to projects from a maintenance PoV... a project depended on by 4.5m users with 1 maintainer should visualise as a high-risk dependency. It's not up to GitHub to do that, it's up to the individual or the company to audit a project and its dependencies and be prepared to be able to maintain it themselves. Or pay the only developer to do exactly that. Another comment (quoted by another guy): > Babel maintainer here
We are probably not going to fork core-js because we don't have enough resources to maintain it. And people expect a single developer to have the resources to do exactly that? look at babel and the list of sponsors, yet they don't have the resources: https://github.com/babel/babel |