Open Source Projects Increasingly Maintained via Forks
zeeg · x · 2026-07-18
The author observes a growing trend in the open-source community: developers directly forking repositories and maintaining their own branches long-term.\n\nThey see benefits, such as teams keeping private goals and moving at their own pace. However, for sufficiently complex projects, this introduces risks: both upstream projects and downstream dependencies relying on these forks can become fragile due to underinvestment.
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