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Project Audit considered Moribund
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I've seen the term “moribund” used a few times to describe various packages and executables, but no one has come out and defined “moribund software”. So let me have a crack. Moribund Software is code that is neither maintained nor used, and is not likely to be either in the future. It may be buggy – or maybe there's not enough “there” in the codebase to have bugs in it. Instead, there's a paltry few features fleshed out to prototype stage, but not beyond. Software becomes moribund because turns out not to be necessary - either to the author(s) or anyone else. Or so I think, because these sentiments are what I pretty think of Project Audit.