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The critical dependency was abandoned by its maintainer

La dipendenza critica è stata abbandonata dal maintainer · Engineering · Advanced

The case

The open source library your product's billing module rests on has had no commits in a year: the maintainer announced the project is archived. It still works, but a medium-severity CVE is already unpatched and the language's next major release will break it. Migrating to the closest alternative is estimated at six weeks of team work; the product manager's roadmap is full for two quarters and he refuses to hear about work invisible to customers. How do you handle it?

La libreria open source su cui poggia il modulo di fatturazione del vostro prodotto non riceve commit da un anno: il maintainer ha annunciato che il progetto è archiviato. Funziona ancora, ma una CVE di gravità media è già senza patch e la prossima major del linguaggio la romperà. Migrare all'alternativa più vicina costa una stima di sei settimane di lavoro del team; il product manager ha la roadmap piena per due trimestri e non vuole sentir parlare di lavoro invisibile al cliente. Come gestisci la situazione?

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