Report: 11 of 23 critical open-source projects have just 1–2 maintainers

A Data Drop report found that 11 of 23 critical open-source projects are maintained by only one or two people, often unpaid. Examples include SQLite (four maintainers, about a trillion deployments), libjpeg-turbo, libxml2 and core-js, while some projects now receive funding from Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency.

• 11 of 23 critical open-source projects have only 1–2 maintainers
• SQLite is used about a trillion times and kept by four people
• libjpeg-turbo's maintainer earns "3-4 figures rather than 6 or 7"
• curl, Log4j and OpenSSL are funded by the Sovereign Tech Agency