I am looking at the langchain community repo. GitHub - langchain-ai/langchain-community: Community-maintained LangChain integrations
The last commit was on Dec 18 (2 months ago as of the time of this post). I submitted a PR 6 days ago and it’s still not assigned.
Is this repo still being maintained?
@chadj2 Yes, it is being actively maintained.
@chadj2 Would really appreciate, if you can mark this is done.
I am seeing 3 commits on Dec 5, Dec 18, Dec 20. That’s about 1 commit per week.
There are 147 PR’s. At this rate it will take 3 years to merge them assuming there are no new PR’s.
6 months ago it was very different and most PR’s were getting merged within a few days. It seems like maintainers have abandoned the project.
Don’t worry, it is getting actively maintained and has not been abandoned. The last commit happened yesterday.
Hi @chadj2 ,
Short answer: No, the repo has not been abandoned.
langchain-community is still actively maintained. Even if the visible commit frequency looks low at times, maintenance activity doesn’t always show up as steady daily commits — reviews, internal syncs, refactors in related repos, and batching of merges can make it look slower than it is.
A few important points:
The repo still receives commits (including very recent ones).
PR backlogs can fluctuate depending on:
Maintainer bandwidth
Priority work in core repos
Ongoing refactors across the LangChain ecosystem
Large ecosystems often go through cycles — periods of rapid merges followed by stabilization/cleanup phases.
The 147 open PRs doesn’t necessarily mean stagnation — many may:
Need changes
Be waiting on contributor updates
Be blocked by dependency refactors
Overlap with other work
If your PR hasn’t been assigned after a week, that’s not unusual for high-traffic OSS repos. A polite follow-up comment (once) is totally reasonable.
So in short:
It’s still maintained — just operating at ecosystem scale, which can feel slower than earlier phases.