> Most probably wouldn’t if the author could be convinced to stop when it was done. It's nice to view software as something that can be done. I cringe when peo

> Most probably wouldn’t if the author could be convinced to stop when it was done. It's nice to view software as something that can be done. I cringe when people look at activity on commits and think that if there isn't continuous activity, the project is dead. Maybe, but it might also be complete. My most successful open source project in terms of adoption (it's packaged in nearly every distro) is one that is done. I wrote it about 10 years ago and other than one small bugfix it hasn't seen any activity since. It's useful, it's complete, nothing more to do.