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What to Do When Critical Open Source Projects Go End of Life
Open source software churn is accelerating. Here's how to plan for EOL and mitigate projects with uncertain futures.
“Somewhere in the tree of dependencies, almost all teams will have at least one package that is underfunded, planning a major version update, or is even considering closing its doors,” Timothy Lehnen, CTO of the nonprofit Drupal Association, told The New Stack. Below, we’ll consider how companies can prepare for OSS EOL, what maintainers and vendors are doing to support deprecated projects and offer guidance for developer teams reliant on packages with uncertain futures. Sudden shifts in open source are nothing new, and much of it represents natural tech cycles, said Neil Hanlon, founder and director of infrastructure at Rocky Linux, a community-supported CentOS replacement.
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