Then turn off the issue tracker and DON'T call yourself an "OSS maintainer". Or leave the issue tracker open but make it explicit on your readme this is just a

Then turn off the issue tracker and DON'T call yourself an "OSS maintainer". Or leave the issue tracker open but make it explicit on your readme this is just a personal project that's not being actively developed so people adjust their expectations. Personal projects or unfinished work on GitHub are perfectly fine and in most cases, better to the world than something stashed on your hard drive, but you're not running any OSS project there. Feels to me some people want to have their cake (claim they "contribute to open source" on their CV/interviews) and eat it too (not have to actually do any work that comes with running an OSS project).