One maintainer, who has created hundreds of popular libraries, described to me what he does when he gets tired of maintaining them. Using a “ghost” admin account that he has purposely forgotten the password to, he transfers his unwanted projects to that account, then removes his main account as administrator. This way, he explained rather cheerfully, nobody will bother him about maintenance, because he cannot access the project anymore, even if he tries. If anybody wants to change the code, instead of bugging him they’ll simply have to fork and maintain it themselves. While this practice works
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