Jazzband, the cooperative open source organization for Python projects, is shutting down after more than 10 years. The founder cites AI-generated spam PRs ("slopocalypse") making open-membership push access untenable, combined with long-standing governance issues as a single-maintainer operation. Over its lifetime, Jazzband hosted 84 projects with ~93,000 GitHub stars and shipped 1,312 PyPI releases, with projects downloaded over 150 million times monthly. Django Commons is recommended as a new home for Django projects. A wind-down plan is in place, with project leads to be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers.
Sort: