[mprime1]

> 5.9k stars, 727 forks, 132 contributors: https://github.com/nats-io/nats.go

That's the NATS Go _client_.

The server project is https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server 17k stars, 1.5k forks, 160 contributors

[askbjoernhansen]

Look at the contribution history, basically all active contributors work for Synadia: https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/graphs/contributors

That's not a healthy / functioning open source community. Less than 30 people have made more than 10 commits; most of the 160 were "drive by" who fixed a single small thing.

[imglorp]

Good point!

[jen20]

On the face of it, that sounds healthy. But dig in further, and you discover that only the top 10 or so contributors have enough activity to make their personal contribution graph anything other than a flat line on zero.

The vast majority of the work here is being done by a very small group of people - likely those paid by the commercial sponsor (a random sample of the top few suggest that well over half of those top contributors fall into that category).

If those people aren't paid to work on the project any more, it will likely die very quickly.