Bitrot

The price we pay is great applications will stall even start to "bitrot" without achieving their full potential. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That means GV Mobile will eventually suffer bitrot like any other piece of unmaintained software on any other platform. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We'd like your help to get these submissions reviewed and if necessary sent upstream so that they don't bitrot and to encourage people to continue helping us improve open source software. ❋ Lyz (2010)

Thus they get wide testing and bitrot cannot happen that easily. ❋ Bernhard R. Link (2010)

Thus those patches by itself are never directly used, unless the maintainer regularly tests them, they are essentially untested and will see bitrot. ❋ Bernhard R. Link (2010)

Enter is recompiled against Krita trunk regularly so it doesn't bitrot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If some match modifies parts that a later patch removes, bitrot can still happen. ❋ Bernhard R. Link (2010)

"In the digital age, everything has a certain amount of bitrot," said Paul V. Mockapetris, who invented the Domain Name System (DNS) that serves as the Internet's address book. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is this cancer, is this bitrot? is this the all singing, all dancing, mathematically leveling devastation of our youth we've all been promised? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Timeline itself has suffered bitrot badly as well, with sources getting tangled up and lost as it has been added to and moved sites multiple times. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Parts that are not maintained by the core team are often very ad-hoc, lack design and bitrot easily. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A feature that is not used by a large percentage of the userbase is subject to bitrot - a year later it may no longer work, and then you may have to spend time on debugging why it didn't work. ❋ Unknown (2009)

IT departments must keep the versions up to date, deal with bitrot ❋ Unknown (2008)