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News » Sunsetting Jazzband
TL;DR Jazzband is sunsetting. New signups are disabled. Project leads will be contacted before PyCon US 2026 to coordinate transfers. The wind-down plan has the timeline, the retrospective has the full story.
Over 10 years ago, Jazzband started as a cooperative experiment to reduce the stress of maintaining Open Source software projects. The idea was simple – everyone who joins gets access to push code, triage issues, merge pull requests. “We are all part of this.”
It had a good run. More than 10 years, actually.
But it’s time to wind things down.
What happened
The slopocalypse
GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.
Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards, where curl had to shut down its bug bounty because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely – an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.
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