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Intel Survey Finds Maintainer Burnout & Documentation Top Open-Source Challenges (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 9 months ago

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At the end of last year Intel hosted a survey of open-source developers to collect their feeback on various open-source software issues.

Intel’s 2023 Open Source Community Survey is all wrapped up, the data tallied up, and the results emailed out today to participants.

I haven't seen Intel post this data on any public web page yet, but per the email, below are all of the results collected from their open-source survey for 2023.

The license was followed by maintainer responsiveness, activity volume, welcoming community, and then the established policies and documentation.

Of those participating in the survey, Intel found the top open-source challenge faced was maintainer burnout at 45%... That was followed by documentation/onboarding at 41% and then maintaining sustainability at 37%.

Another result of little surprise was finding the open-source project of greatest interest being Linux itself.

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