First off, I'm surprised an open project has such a high bus factor. There should always be a contingency plan. The IRC channel could have easily been protecte

First off, I'm surprised an open project has such a high bus factor. There should always be a contingency plan. The IRC channel could have easily been protected if a second or even third trusted member of the team was given admin privileges and/or access to bots. The domain and github accounts are tricky because of ownership and financial payments. The right way to do this would be to form an organization (non profit, etc) and register all the domains and accounts to that entity. Then delegate access to one or more trusted members with the founder as the head. And finally, let this be a lesson to open developers. If you want to participate in a large open project, check the bus factor and proceed with caution.