Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Highlight

I realized there was an enormous disconnect between how we think open source works and what is actually happening on the ground today. There is a long, and growing, tail of projects that don’t fit the typical model of collaboration. Such projects include Bootstrap, a popular design framework used by an estimated 20% of all websites,4 where three developers have authored over 73% of commits.*5 Another example is Godot, a software framework for making games, where two developers respond to more than 120 issues opened on their project per week.†6