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by hashar 1005 days ago
I'd guess the issue with that project is that it is mostly a single person effort and if that person is busy with other projects/repos/real life, they might not have the bandwidth to keep-up with the review, loose interest or maybe did not notice the PR update in the stream of incoming requests.

I guess the community (if there is any) can request to have more maintainers added to the repository to share the burden, else you still have the option to fork the repo and publish it under a different name.

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I get being busy. But it’s been three years, and he keeps saying the project isn’t dead, so he hasn’t lost interest. Also, he asked for help then largely ignored the help and/or started bike shedding the PRs. He’s 100% across everything that happens in the repo, investing a lot of time replying to every comment immediately.

I’m pretty sure people offered to become maintainers and he declined. Forking has its own set of problems, but yeah you’re right, this is at least a possibility.