An announcement for version 0.0.1alpha of the product in question really annoyed me. I’m a big fan of full disclosure, but this illustrates one of the problems that is becoming more and more prevalent on lists like Bugtraq. People are posting not with the intent of solving problems, but rather for the purpose of inflating their own reputations. This illustrates a strange feature of open source code dying. It stays out there, though, just waiting for somebody to start using it.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/analytics/open-source-pitfalls