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<p><a href="https://allcontributors.org/">All Contributors</a> is a project which helps us recognise all the types of contributions that build our open source communities and make them flourish. It defines a specification for acknowledging community members' work, whatever they contribute, as well as tools for easy management and presentation of this information. All Contributors is used by a wide range of communities, particularly those where key contributors are not well recognised by metrics more easily extracted from version control history.</p> <p>Recently these communities noticed signs of poor health in All Contributors. When the website went offline, a group of users were <a href="https://github.com/orgs/the-turing-way/discussions/4245">catalysed in to action</a>. Coordinated by <a href="https://www.leahwasser.com/">Leah Wasser</a> (pyOpenSci Executive Director &amp; Founder, PSF Fellow) they committed to adopting the project and forming a new, sustainable team of maintainers.</p> <p>With the context of All Contributors, I will tell a story of the decline and rise of an open source project. There will be a scattering of challenges maintainers face such as, burnout, technical debt, and lottery factor. However, it is also a hopeful story about how open source software can play critical roles, cultivate deep affection from its users, and, with community support, rise again.</p>