Then there comes in feature creep.
This is driving me nuts. Everybody thinks that “development has to be kept alive!” When people see a project without commits in the last 2 years, they think it’s dead and not worth using. Bah, why? Software can be “done”. If no bugs are known, then there’s no need to change anything.
All these ideas are old. I’ve heard about much of this from meillo some 15 years ago and he didn’t come up with it, either.
It’s all super unpopular. Why? Many of my projects see a burst of commits in the beginning and then mostly just maintenance – and that’s great. It saves me from so much trouble and work. For example, my X11 wallpaper setter was written in 2017, I’m using it daily all the time, it just works, boom, done.
A project isn’t dead if it doesn’t see commits anymore – it’s dead if nobody maintains it anymore.