Good policy. Then I can just watch for people to go on vacation via their Instagram, and while they're out I'll contact GitHub and say "Hey this person is unreachable! Give me control of their projects!"
Brilliant.
Brilliant.
You don't really own part or any of the project if you don't have administrative access to it. It's that simple. If you feel like you should, then you need to arrange that with the person who currently does.
These are project organizational issues that GitHub shouldn't be expected to waste their time on.
While I agree with that logic on some level, this sounds exactly like the same arguments that every tech company uses to detach itself from the social consequences of the service it provides.
The organization on GitHub was registered by an individual on behalf of the open source project. Now that the person can no longer be contacted, control needs to be transferred to someone else representing the open source project. It's that simple.