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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep your stable GitHub repo active? by detaro on Friday December 19, 2014 @07:39AM (#8771967)
Depending on the software, testing in new environments and adding information about this, e.g. testing server software under current distributions. If you get user reports about this, there isn't even a need to do the tests yourself.

Maybe clearly say in the README: "This project is considered stable and therefore has less activity, but is not abandoned. I promise to remove this notice if this ever changes."

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Re:Ask HN: How do you keep your stable GitHub repo active? by caw on Friday December 19, 2014 @07:52AM (#8771993)
I actually just encountered this yesterday on a project. It had a disclaimer that said something like "This project isn't abandoned, we just maintain 0 bugs in the bug tracker. It's stable and ready for use, and if we get a bug report we'll fix it as soon as possible"
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