BurnRiSc: Toward Non-Invasive Burnout Screening in Open Source from Public Repository Signals

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arXiv:2609.19422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Burnout is a chronic occupational syndrome, and open source is close to a worst case for it: maintainers absorb unbounded demand with no manager to reallocate work and no organization to notice decline. The cost is not only personal. Burnout precedes withdrawal, and in projects sustained by a handful of maintainers, one departure can break infrastructure that thousands of downstream systems depend on. Yet the field has no way to see it coming: se