Comment by matheusmoreira

Last commit time is a pretty good indicator that the project has someone who still cares enough to regularly maintain it.

I have some projects I consider finished because they already do what I need them to do. If I really cared I'm sure I could find lots of things to improve. Last commit time being years ago is a pretty good indicator that I stopped caring and moved on. That's exactly what happened: my itch's already been scratched and I decided to work on something else because time is short.

I was once surprised to discover a laptop keyboard LED driver I published on GitHub years ago somehow acquired users. Another developer even built a GUI around it which is awesome. The truth is I just wanted to turn the lights off because when I turn the laptop on they default to extremely bright blue. I reverse engineered everything I could but as far as I'm concerned the project's finished. Last commit 4 years ago speaks volumes.