Unmaintained free software

Posted Nov 7, 2006 4:18 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (guest, #2599)
Parent article: Unmaintained free software

Only seven projects have been added since the beginning of the year, and only two (Gnome Commander and khtml2png) are listed as having been adopted.

Vacation just got adopted, too.

Some projects, however, seem pointless--for example, ksmp3play (Yet Another MP3 Player, whee) and Golgotha Forever (big idea by one of the ex-id developers, IIRC, but far more in need of being written in the first place than simply maintained).

And then there are all of those "twilight" projects, Free or otherwise--e.g., Info-ZIP Zip/UnZip, which is still chugging along but could use some more coders; or XV, which is shareware-with-source, long since abandoned by its owner, and which I halfway maintain because I still use it so much. I also have more than a dozen projects that I "maintain" but tend to forget how long it's been since I last pushed my internal changes out (several years in more than one case); fortunately they're all pretty small, so no one much notices. ;-)

I could also swear that there was a much older web site tracking unmaintained F/OSS, but I can't find the link offhand.

Oh well...

Greg