Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people?

• sudo

  50 1,170 9.2 C

  Utility to execute a command as another user

  

  Looking at the example of sudo it seems there are still plenty of regular and recent commits.

  https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commits/main/

• SaaSHub

  www.saashub.com featured

  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

• tz

  79 1,495 9.1 C

  Time zone database and code

  Time Zone Database

  https://github.com/eggert/tz/graphs/contributors

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database

• coolify

  133 32,296 10.0 PHP

  An open-source & self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative.

  

• mocha

  158 22,566 8.7 JavaScript

  ☕️ simple, flexible, fun javascript test framework for node.js & the browser

  

  Mocha js testing framework is widely used and maintained by a small team https://github.com/mochajs/mocha/issues/5027

• husky

  137 32,414 8.7 JavaScript

  Git hooks made easy 🐶 woof!

  husky (git hooks) https://github.com/typicode/husky

• oils

  250 2,821 8.7 Python

  Oils is our upgrade path from bash to a better language and runtime. It's also for Python and JavaScript users who avoid shell!

  

  bash and readline - Chet Ramey. Both originally by Brian Fox https://twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/readline.html

  maybe less of a bus factor now with OSH approaching feature/speed parity and having more maintainers https://www.oilshell.org/

• Byte Buddy

  6 6,227 9.4 Java

  Runtime code generation for the Java virtual machine.

  byte-buddy - runtime code generation for the Java virtual machine - https://github.com/raphw/byte-buddy

  > It is stable and in use by distinguished frameworks and tools such as Mockito, Hibernate , Jackson, Google's Bazel build system and many others. Byte Buddy is also used by a large number of commercial products to great result. It is currently downloaded over 75 million times a year.

• ZLib

  51 5,640 8.4 C

  A massively spiffy yet delicately unobtrusive compression library.

• libexpat

  13 1,071 9.0 C

  :herb: Fast streaming XML parser written in C99 with >90% test coverage; moved from SourceForge to GitHub

  

• linux-pam

  11 611 9.4 C

  Linux PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules for Linux) project

  

• re2c

  13 1,076 9.5 C

  Lexer generator for C, C++, Go and Rust.

• HomeBrew

  1,315 40,986 10.0 Ruby

  🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  

  Homebrew has a healthy amount of contributors. Some people leave as priorities change but others join.

  https://github.com/Homebrew/brew#who-we-are

• e2fsprogs

  4 374 8.8 C

  Ext2/3/4 file system utilities

  e2fsprogs (https://github.com/tytso/e2fsprogs) is a widely-used utility suite for creating, maintaining, and repairing ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems

• Laravel

  387 78,342 8.6 PHP

  Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

  

• orca

  1 109 9.8 Python

  Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca (by GNOME)

  

• accesskit

  29 1,051 8.9 Rust

  Accessibility infrastructure for UI toolkits

  

• heyform

  3 6,410 9.1 TypeScript

  HeyForm is an open-source form builder that allows anyone to create engaging conversational forms for surveys, questionnaires, quizzes, and polls. No coding skills required.

  

  Not very typical "widely used" project but recently surpassed 100k+ installs with two people working on it part-time.

  https://github.com/heyform/heyform

• coreutils

  119 4,230 9.3 C

  upstream mirror (by coreutils)

  

  How about the history for "true": https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commits/master/src/tr...

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