{"id":1192563,"date":"2023-10-15T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-15T16:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192563"},"modified":"2023-10-15T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-15T16:34:00","slug":"report-finds-few-open-source-projects-are-actively-maintained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192563","title":{"rendered":"Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained,&#8221; reports InfoWorld:<\/p>\n<p>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 \u2014 118,028 \u2014 were receiving active maintenance. <\/p>\n<p>The report also found some new projects, unmaintained in 2022, now being maintained. <\/p>\n<p>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. Some Go projects also were included. According to the report, 18.6% of Java and JavaScript projects that were being maintained in 2022 are no longer being maintained today.<br \/>\nOther interesting findings:<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 10% reported security breaches due to open source vulnerabilities in the past 12 months.<br \/>\nUse of AI and machine learning software components within corporate environments surged 135% over the last year.\n<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Report+Finds+Few+Open+Source+Projects+are+Actively+Maintained%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F15%2F0225241%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/twitter_icon_large-567.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F23%2F10%2F15%2F0225241%2Freport-finds-few-open-source-projects-are-actively-maintained%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/facebook_icon_large-283.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/15\/0225241\/report-finds-few-open-source-projects-are-actively-maintained?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.slashdot.org\/story\/23\/10\/15\/0225241\/report-finds-few-open-source-projects-are-actively-maintained?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A recent analysis accounting for nearly 1.2 million open source software projects primarily across four major ecosystems found that only about 11% of projects were actively maintained,&#8221; reports InfoWorld: In its 9th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain report, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1192563\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1192564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-1192563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1192563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1192564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1192563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1192563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1192563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}