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> Who do you suppose he should hand it off to? Like I said, anyone would be better than nobody.

• evanelias 2y ago
  No, absolutely not. That's precisely how you end up with bad actors inserting malware into FOSS projects they've taken over. If a maintainer doesn't want to continue a project, and there's no existing contributor who has demonstrated both the qualifications and interest in taking over a project, the responsible thing to do is archive it – not give committer rights to some rando. In the future, if someone else wants to take a stab at continuing the project, they can fork it. Crucially that moves the project to a different namespace – as it absolutely should, for security reasons.
  • teddyh 2y ago
    Fair point. However, officially announcing the end of the project is not too much to ask.