A recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained.
In its 9th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, published October 3, software supply chain management company Sonatype assessed 1,176,407 projects and reported an 18% decline this year in actively maintained projects. Just 11% of projects—118,028—were receiving active maintenance.
The four ecosystems included JavaScript, via NPM; Java, via the Maven project management tool; Python, via the PyPI package index; and .NET, through the NuGet gallery. According to the report, 18.6% of Java and JavaScript projects that were being maintained in 2022 are no longer being maintained today.
