[lukevp]

Crazy to abandon a 6.4k star project that presumably many people are actively using… I know maintenance of OSS projects can be burdensome but there’s usually some in the community that are eager to chip in with PR reviews and handling issues. I’m surprised they aren’t interested in pivoting the product in the same general direction but giving it some novel features or something.

[loloquwowndueo]

Why is it crazy? If it no longer aligns with the maintainer’s interests or energy, doesn’t provide compensation, he’s within his right to archive it and move on. And people in the community can fork it if they need to.

[jprete]

After the sshd debacle, and in the context of GenAI becoming ever better at impersonation at scale, I don't think anyone working on a security-relevant project should simply hand off to an enthusiastic community member they don't know well.

[cocoa19]

Do you remember when Raymond Hill ceded control of uBlock to another guy? This new guy started asking for donations (for himself) and then sold the project to AdBlock.

That was truly disgusting.

That’s what prompted Raymond to create uBlock Origin.

[codetrotter]

If it were me I would shut it down too after I no longer had energy to maintain it.

Just handing responsibility over to someone else for something like a VPN project is definitely high risk.

Remember the xz debacle last week? Same kind of people who backdoored xz would love to get maintainership of a VPN project for sure.

[baq]

It’s crazy to maintain such a project, shutting it down is the only sane option.

Chapeau bas for keeping it going for so long. The internet of old was built by irrational hobbyists like these guys.

[ocdtrekkie]

My guess is they think the alternative already meets their needs. If someone else is already doing it better, why not just use that?