Comment by aragilar
15 days ago
Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
15 days ago
Somewhat interesting that "volunteer project no longer under active development" got changed to "unmaintained".
For context, they have 2 to 4 commits per month since October [1]. The last release was July 2025 [2].
[1]: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/commits/main/
[2]: https://github.com/pypy/pypy/tags
That seems reasonably active to me. You can't really expect more from an open source project without paid full-time developers.
What euphemism do you prefer then...
There's a difference between dead (i.e. "unmaintained") and low activity ("not under active development"). From what I can see PyPy is in the latter category (and being in that category does not mean it's going to die soon), so choosing to claim it is unmaintained is notable.
Being three major versions behind CPython is definitely not a great sign for the long-term viability of it.
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Undermaintained might be more suited since it does have life but doesn't appear commercially healthy nor apparently relevant to other communities.
Underphrased like a pro.
much respect to the PyPy contributors, but it seems like a pretty fair assessment
9 months since the last major release definitely feels like a short time in which to declare time-of-death on an open source project
But if you set up dependabot and automerge some crap every couple of days your project will be very active!
Meanwhile my projects got marked as abandoned because those scanners are unaware of codeberg being a thing.
It’s been a lot longer than that. There was a reasonable sized effort to provide binaries via conda-forge but the users never came. That said, the PyPy devs were always a pleasure to work with.
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It is also lagging behind in terms of Python releases. They are currently on 3.11, which was released 3.5 years ago for mainline Python.
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