majamee You hit a nerve because people have been making claims like this since Solus started. It doesn't matter how much work we do, how often we post blogs, or how many people are formally members of the project. People have always claimed that we are going to die in the near future. So can you really be surprised when yet another person makes similar claims that long-time members of the the community are annoyed?
Also, I'll kindly ask you to stop arguing over statistics. With your Budgie example, that's wholly unfair. Ikey created and spent a crap-ton of time on it over most of the last decade. Josh didn't need to contribute back then and focused on many other things. We've also publicly stated multiple times that Budgie 10 will not be receiving major features or upgrades and that all of that will be the focus for Budgie 11, which isn't on the table until next year. It's also a huge fallacy to equate Budgie's development with Solus development.
@Harvey posted those links to point out that there has been active development on Solus-focused software since the beginning of the year and that we haven't just been sitting idle. He wasn't trying to equate the scale to that of Ikey working as a full-time developer for Solus. And just looking at the software we write is not enough to gauge the amount of work we do on a regular basis for Solus. A ton of work goes into keeping things up to date, adding new software, fixing bugs, and providing user support. Maintaining the project doesn't mean we are in maintenance mode. Maintenance-only would mean no stack upgrades, security-only updates, and minimal user support. Describing our day-to-day efforts as "maintenance" is insulting to the time the people have so graciously donated to the project. So please stop describing it as such.