Original link: THE 2024 TIDELIFT STATE OF THE OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINER REPORT / Tidelift.
Some important points:
#1 60% of maintainers are (still) not paid for their work ... #4 Maintainers are spending 3× more time on security than they did a few years ago ... #6 Paid maintainers are significantly more likely to implement critical security practices than unpaid maintainers #7 Paid maintainers do more maintenance and documentation work than unpaid maintainers #8 Almost half of maintainers feel underappreciated and like the work is thankless #9 In the wake of the xz utils hack, two-thirds of maintainers are less trusting of contributors ... #12 The open source maintainer community is getting grayer
Lots of details in the 63 pages!