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- 1Analysis finds many core open source projects run by one or two people●An analysis by a Redditor, published on sheets.works, counted regular contributors on 23 core open source projects and f
A new analysis counting regular contributors across 23 core open source projects found 11 relied on only one or two maintainers over the past year. Among them is xz, which shipped a malicious backdoor in 2024 (CVE-2024-3094); Lasse Collin again wrote 97 percent of its 2025 commits. Security observers say the figures underline how thin maintainer coverage remains, leaving critical infrastructure exposed to the same burnout and infiltration risks that enabled the xz incident.
- 2Data Drop counts the people holding up the internet●“The people holding up the internet” by Data Drop 🔗 https:// sheets.works/data-viz/holding- up-the-internet > Billions o
A new data project by Data Drop, 'The people holding up the internet', examines open-source software and finds that billions of phones run on code maintained by only a handful of people. The team counted maintainers directly from the code itself, highlighting how heavily the world's digital infrastructure depends on a very small group of often unpaid developers. Readers are sharing the findings and discussing the fragility of open-source maintenance.