> I wish GitHub had a proper UI for deprecating/abandoning projects As we see from OP, it's really hard to admit that you don't have time for your own project.

> I wish GitHub had a proper UI for deprecating/abandoning projects As we see from OP, it's really hard to admit that you don't have time for your own project. Ideally, inactive maintainers will let go and give push right to whoever is working on their project. But more often, maintainers simply stop being active. This discourages contributors from even submitting bugfixes because the users won't profit from their work. (I've once seen a project with 3 forks, each containing a slightly different commit fixing the same bug.) It would help much already if GitHub displayed a prominent notice "the activity on the project you're looking at is very low, but fork A and fork B both have higher recent activity". Something like a compact summary of the network graph. (The network graph is great, but has too much whitespace and requires too much scrolling to get an overview. Especially if there are 30 forks of people just committing one local hack or config file.)