[Themaintainers] Death of open projects and its rituals?

[Boy, J.D. (John)]

Hi Jan,

> I recently started thinking about rituals for and memories of the end ("death") of projects [1]. How to send-off that project or idea of a future?

Are you aware of Camille E. Acey's The Wind Down (https://www.wind-down.org/about/)? Camille is an active participant in The Maintainers.

> I wondered about the end of "open" projects, i.e. ones that say that their essence is "the code" and/or "the data" like open source software or open knowledge projects. 

This reminded me of an essay by a tech blogger on software that is essentially finished and does not require new releases. He calls such software "cold-blooded" which may be a nice metaphor: https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

John