[dale_glass]

We've started a non-profit to deal with such issues. It's a lot of work, but well worthwhile in the long term because part of the process is clarifying such issues, and the organization keeps on existing regardless of any individual member.

Still, even this situation is much better than what we had before. It's on github and so the project doesn't randomly vanish from existence when the owner isn't there to maintain the machine in their closet anymore. Contributors see each other and can realize "Hey, maintainer isn't active anymore but there's still interest in the project, maybe we should do something about this".

[stavros]

I added a sibling comment, I made https://www.codeshelter.co/ a while back. Maybe we should partner.

[dale_glass]

Oh, I mean we started a non-profit to support our particular project (https://overte.org/), not that we've got a general purpose organization providing service to whoever needs it.

So I'm not sure we're we're a good fit, in that we're neither something comparable to Code Shelter, nor unmaintained.

[stavros]

Ah, I see, thanks.

[dystroy]

> "Hey, maintainer isn't active anymore but there's still interest in the project, maybe we should do something about this"

When the project isn't huge (think linux sized) it looks like the best solution, with able persons forking the project and trying to revive it. And if they don't manage to revive it (it's hard to know in advance who will be strong and available enough) maybe another fork will.