Hi David,
I(with fable) pulled some numbers from
master.pgxn.org today.
For 218 of the 496 distributions the last PGXN release is more than five years old. I checked the repositories with a script and looked at the unclear ones one by one.
- 51 are alive upstream. 37 at the repository in META.json, for example hll and rum, and 14 that moved, for example mongo_fdw and redis_fdw.
- 13 were replaced by something in core.
- 32 had some activity two to five years ago, or I could not tell.
- 122 show no sign of life for five years. 70 of them ship C code.
Only 3 of the 122 are still packaged in the PGDG apt or yum repositories for 17 and 18.
So the dead and still shipped set looks small. The 51 look like a different case, the project is alive but nobody releases on PGXN. A pointer to upstream may be enough there.
I may have missed some moves, so 122 is an upper bound. I can send the table if you want more detailed data.
Thanks,
Shihao
