Intel's 2023 annual open source survey results exposed: maintainer burnout is the biggest challenge, licenses are highly valued

According to foreign media Phoronix, according to the results of the 2023 open source survey recently shared by Intel, maintainer fatigue has become the biggest challenge facing open source.

The survey shows that in terms of the importance of various aspects of the open source ecosystem, 46% of the respondents voted for "acceptable open source license" in the first place, followed by Factors that pay more attention to include "the maintainer's responsiveness" and "the project's activity level."

▲ Ranking of importance of various aspects of open source

As for the biggest challenge facing the open source ecosystem,there are 45 % of participants chose "maintenance staff burnout", and the similar "maintaining sustainability" also received 37% of the votes, ranking third; in second place was "documentation and onboarding issues".

▲ The biggest challenge facing open source

In the survey of the most watched open source projects, Linux undoubtedly tops the list. Next Positions 2 to 5 are Rust, Clang/LLVM, GCC and Kubernetes respectively.

##▲ The most watched open source project

Regarding artificial intelligence, which is a hot topic in the industry,

the total number of respondents has exceeded 80% believe that open source is very important for artificial intelligence. (Note from this site: 66% chose “extremely important for innovation” and 16% chose “very important but not necessary”)

▲ Open source The Importance of Artificial Intelligence

Regarding the issue of engagement, 30% of those who responded to Intel’s open source survey contributed to open source projects more than once a week.

▲ Frequency of contribution to open source projects

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