[xiwenc]

Why not grow the maintainers group to multiple people? A trusted group of people that share the vision of the project. This way the project becomes a living thing that doesn’t depend on the goodwill of a single person. And that single person would not be overwhelmed.

People are not entitled for support but bringing something out as open source does come with some responsibilities. If not when others fork it the original author gets upset others stealing their project (assumption here).

[bwindels]

> bringing something out as open source does come with some responsibilities.

No, it does not.

[TonyTrapp]

There are many, many projects where "simply adding more maintainers" is not possible at all, i.e. there are no people that you personally can trust to do the right thing, and that have the necessary experience. For various projects that I maintain, I couldn't name a single person that would have the skill and would actually want to take over. Granted they may not be as popular as this persons's repositories, but still - this claim is not generally true.