This weekend, I read "Weekend at Bernie's", a recent blog post from @andrewnez@mastodon.social in which he tries to quantify how many of the critical dependencies of various ecosystems are effectively "dead". The post was very interesting, and I like the methodology he used. But what I noticed (besides the relatively high percentage of "dead" critical dependencies) was the large number of dependencies that are in an "unknown" state, i.e., for which we don't know whether they are maintained or not.
This got me thinking, and I came up with a proposal:
https://www.theozimmermann.net/2026/05/maintenance-md/
I would be very curious to know what you think about it!