The majority of open source project maintainers are not paid for their work, spend three times as much time on security as they did three years ago, and have become less trusting of contributors after the xz backdoor, according to open source security company Tidelift. .
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No wonder then that the maintenance population is aging – not enough newcomers want the undercompensated, underappreciated job.
Tidelift on Tuesday published its 2024 State of the Open Source Maintainer Report [PDF], the results of a survey answered by over 400 maintainers.
About 45 percent of the survey respondents have been entertainers for more than 10 years and the age distribution is getting older.
