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GitHub's charts are inaccurate and a quick glance at the commit list would tell you that: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/commits/main/ -- you have to cross some threshhold number of commits across all time in the repository to even appear in that dashboard.

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/openbao-2/repos... is a more accurate view.

Yes, I contribute a lot, but in the last three months, we've seen substantial interest from other groups (thank you SAP, Reply, Adfinis, and G-Research OSS to name a few!) and have recently promoted a fresh group of committers.

Having worked at HashiCorp, I'm rather proud of what the community has built and proud of our ability to promote external maintainers. Open governance isn't easy for corporate contributions, but it is possible and I thank my employer for letting me try. :-)

Just look at the (narrowing) feature gap and critical improvements we've landed--transactions to name one--to see why I'm optimistic.

Thanks for the response and calm rebuttal :)

I realise GitHub’s graph isn’t necessarily fully representative, but one personal concern is that I don’t know yet how long-term many of these new contributors will be.

That said, I also do applaud the efforts to build a community-driven fork in a similar vein to OpenTofu (which does seem to have critical mass now), and from the sounds of what you’re saying OpenBao is heading in the right direction too.

What's annoying is the one man band projects get popular and then suddenly deciding to throw it away by archiving it on github without giving the chance of others to step in.

Definitely. It's why I've been pushing for open governance and slowly building community's trust in additional maintainers to avoid burnout and ensure continuity.

You can see maintainer process here: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/blob/main/MAINTAINERS.md

And TSC processes here: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md

Earlier this month, we moved from LF Edge to OpenSSF to better align with our umbrella foundation and hopefully reach more people.

It's the safe thing to do. If you endorse a fork, and the new maintainer goes rogue, it's on you. Or, let a prevailing fork naturally emerge, and hopefully that vets them a bit in the process.

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