"At the core of the issue is vendors and non-profit entities that launched and support these projects are shouldering the cost of maintaining the underlying IT infrastructure required to support package repositories and managers with no way to recoup that investment. Specifically, the open letter identifies automated continuous integration (CI) platforms, large-scale dependency scanners, and ephemeral container builds as IT tools and platforms that are putting an enormous strain on infrastructure."
"The rise of generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) coding tools is only going to drive a further explosion of wasteful automated usage that compounds those existing challenges, according to the signers of the letter. As a result, the letter notes "a small number of organizations absorb the majority of infrastructure costs, while the overwhelming majority of large-scale users, including commercial entities that extract economic value, consume these services without contributing to their sustainability.""
Leaders of major open source projects demand major changes to how IT infrastructure supporting package repositories and package managers is funded, operated, and maintained. Vendors and nonprofit organizations that launched and support these projects currently shoulder most infrastructure costs without mechanisms to recoup investment. Automated continuous integration platforms, large-scale dependency scanners, and ephemeral container builds are creating heavy, uncapped load on service infrastructure. Many commercial-scale workloads run without caching, throttling, or awareness of imposed strain. The spread of generative and agentic AI coding tools will intensify automated, wasteful usage. Commercial and institutional partnerships or usage-aligned, tiered access funding models are presented as necessary remedies.
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