Maybe you do, I'm sure people would appreciate that, but it's not necessary. The nature of these things is that the users are already "following the herd" to a

Maybe you do, I'm sure people would appreciate that, but it's not necessary. The nature of these things is that the users are already "following the herd" to a degree. So if the maintainer becomes inactive and a fork picks up the interest, they will just move to that. No ceremony required.