The “community” has only just managed to find the resources to maintain NTP. I think if “nobody is donating” is your standard for whether things should live or die, then we are all hopelessly fucked.
My standard is not having a single full-time employee without the proper resources to maintain the technology. If the community would find the resources, all is well, but better than to run it on fumes would be to give everyone time to move on.
OK, but you understand that by that same standard you’d have sunsetted NTP. Harlan Stenn was maintaining it for a pittance; nowhere near a full developer salary.
How do they call it, it's the "business risk"? Who am I to question it. Let's just take care nobody loses an eye in the process.
Good to see the side of tech that gives us a negative reputation. Most businesses would at least pretend to care and say how important things are while being greedy in the background. Some of tech will simply say "screw it, let it all burn down and maybe we'll rebuild".