What's so irresponsible about it? He clearly communicated the state of affairs.

I think he was generous enough with his time for creating the library in the first place and posting this update. It's not like he's owing anything to anybody. I don't understand how you can demand him to do further UNPAID work to recruit maintainers who would also do further unpaid work.

Anyone else is free to take it! You see that the repository is hosted under his own user. Anyone else can create an organization or host it under their own name.

Are we collectively having Subversion phantom pains or something? Just take it.

I’m not sure how much open source work you’ve done or what packages you’ve maintained, but in my experience, the “someone else” rarely ever comes. Heck I have even been the someone else and then done a bad job of it!

This is an unrealistic and frankly a bit entitled of a criticism.

This is before we even get to stuff like “it’s not like yaml is a fast moving target, what continued maintenance is really even needed” parts of the equation, or the comment above that said he’s tried already.

No, it's incredibly irresponsible to hand over the repo to someone else to manage, even someone who is an active contributor. See https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdo... for example.

With the greatest respect, I think it is your attitude that needs adjustment, not their behaviour.

I believe he offered for someone to take over and no one ever stepped up to the plate. This happens a lot.

> he should turn over the repo to someone else to manage

Why can't this "someone else" just fork the repo themselves?

The obnoxious and irresponsible part is the hubris of thinking you can have a package repository system that's going to not have problems like this and left-pad.

You can't. Ever. This is unironically why languages too old for package repositories like C and C++ lend themselves to stabler, higher-quality software.

On top of that is also the entitlement to feel like people providing you software for free MUST ALSO be responsible for polishing it forever. But, hey, I guess that attitude comes naturally with the package repository mindset. ;D People need to do all my work for me!