I probably fall in the category of those that think that authors of open source projects do have a responsibility for the code they share and its maintenance.

I probably fall in the category of those that think that authors of open source projects do have a responsibility for the code they share and its maintenance. The main reason I'm saying this is that I feel that the open source world is not an infinite dump area where everyone just throws out code of any quality (in many cases just for having something to add on the 2nd page of a résumé). This is not to say that authors are required to implement additional features or support a piece of code forever. But trying to deliver as much as the original "promise" of the project and making it clear what's the status of the project is the responsibility of the author. Browse GitHub and tell me how many projects are marked as "defunct" or "abandoned" or "unmaintained". (maybe Github should automatically do this...)