Good question! One Python example is docopt. It is a very well-liked command line parsing library but haven't seen any maintainer activity in two years. https:/

Good question! One Python example is docopt. It is a very well-liked command line parsing library but haven't seen any maintainer activity in two years. https://github.com/docopt/docopt https://github.com/docopt/docopt But people don't realize that so they keep filing bug reports and submitting pull requests. There is a docopt-ng package here: https://github.com/bazaar-projects/docopt-ng https://github.com/bazaar-projects/docopt-ng But users haven't found it yet. And sadly, there is no guarantee that the new maintainer won't also lose interest and abandon the project. Definitely not an ideal situation. Yes, you can fork but how do you get visibility? How can the developer announce to the community that he or she wants to maintain the software?