Growing Up The Hard Way
Summary: A Hacker News opinion piece argues that open source's supply-chain incidents, from SolarWinds and Log4Shell to TeamPCP and Shai-Hulud, have split projects into those that can prove they are reachable, patched and accountable and those that cannot. The author predicts regulated enterprises will soon be required to meet that bar, citing the EU Cyber Resilience Act's new 'steward' category as the law putting the role on the books.
What's compelling: The piece's core claim is that a project looks identical the day before its maintainer walks away as the day after, so you learn a dependency was abandoned only when you need a patch and nobody answers. The xz-utils maintainer, it notes, had nowhere good to hand the keys.
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