Open source maintainers say CVE pressure leaves them no option but the archive button
letandrewcook · x · 2026-10-23
A developer maintaining multiple open source projects says the surge in CVEs this year has left him with no option but hitting the archive button on GitHub. After talking with other maintainers, he found the feeling is widely shared. It points to a sustainability crisis for individual maintainers under mounting security-disclosure pressure.
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