Checking on the status of opensource audio apps and plugins (previously known to me) is quite the sad sight, quite a lot of them have been abandoned 😔
I am thinking of tagging anything that:
1. has no stable release in 10 years
AND
2. has no single dev commit/change in 5 years
as "abandoned".
Alternatively if the project owner publicly states it is no longer maintained.
The amount of projects that fit into this criteria is not small. And I feel 10 & 5 year thing is quite generous..
Related to this, I see a lot of JUCE based projects that seem nice in principle but if the author has not updated between versions (say using older JUCE6) it becomes difficult to package and argue in their favour.
JUCE breaks their API quite a lot, even between minor versions. So projects that rely on older versions don't have e.g. fixes for high-dpi screen support or linux vst3.
Updating them to new JUCE versions can be quite complex sometimes.
Not good prospective for long-tern support...
