There’s this kind of feeling that open-source projects need to move quickly.

As if they were Silicon Valley startups. Without a constant stream of releases with new headline features, how can they compete to gain share?

It’s commonplace on projects to see questions about when a next the release is due, and even whether the project is still alive, if there isn’t this rapid update cadence.

These doubts are independent of almost any other metric you might choose to look at. A project can have been maintained for years, be super stable, have exemplary test coverage, CI passing against all the latest language and dependency versions, and all the rest of it — and yet still, there’ll be questions.