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The node.js ecosystem is full of grindset Californians maintaining fashion pieces because if their GitHub star count drops below the last candidate the hiring manager saw they won't get the rest-and-vest job.

It's not NTP, it's not really infrastructure, you can literally do without it. It's not OpenSSL, if it just stops today there's no additional significant risk your prod systems all get popped next week.

There's nothing worth salvaging, technically or culturally. Let it fall.



Love your attitude towards OSS maintainers.


There's no loathing like self-loathing.




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