> So instead of pretending I’m going to improve things, I decided to just:
I wish many more projects had this. Sometimes it is hard to tell if something is just in a stable state and not needed fixes recently, or simply stagnated and possibly full of unresolved issues. Or course many things stagnate unintentionally (the rest of life just happens to the maintainer(s)!) so this is never going to be common, but when people actively decide they are unlikely to work on something going forward (they've scratched their itch, their need has passed) it would be nice to have a statement of such.
> "just"
That "just" list is better care than many active projects get!
For projects that turn out to be surprisingly popular or useful - it's nice if the canonical author have time to merge patches with bug fixes - but often I think a simple update to the readme along the lines of "fork X is maintained" is just fine (assuming someone in the community maintain fork X for their own use).
I wish many more projects had this. Sometimes it is hard to tell if something is just in a stable state and not needed fixes recently, or simply stagnated and possibly full of unresolved issues. Or course many things stagnate unintentionally (the rest of life just happens to the maintainer(s)!) so this is never going to be common, but when people actively decide they are unlikely to work on something going forward (they've scratched their itch, their need has passed) it would be nice to have a statement of such.
> "just"
That "just" list is better care than many active projects get!