[armada651]

> Usually the maintainer just moved on to other things and the project wasn’t important enough to them to formally hand over

Where is this pool of maintainers ready to take on any project that I can hand over my projects to?

[account42]

More important is, how you know that those prospective maintainers won't just use the reputation you build to ship malware.

Death is not the worst thing that can happen to an open source project.