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Open source community embraces "maintenance mode" as sign of mature software

sinbad endorses stable software as superior in current era

A game developer responds to the post, calling the older idea that stable software is "dead" idiotic, and arguing that software with minimal changes over years is high-quality in the current landscape.

“the idea of a project being "dead" because it was stable and not getting weekly updates was idiotic. In the slop era, software that hasn't had significant changes barring a few small careful fixes for 3 years is S-tier”

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