Comment by teddyh
14 hours ago
> How do you retire without it sounding like an insult to the ecosystem and the people who helped you make the product good?
I would think it’s fairly simple. Announce your retirement from the project, and assign the project leadership and commit rights (or whatever GitHub uses) to whoever you feel would be a good fit, or the most frequent contributor, or simply to the most recent one. But most anything would be better than locking the repository and vanishing without a word.
Okay but… it looks like he made 9 times as many commits as the second most frequent committer and 6 times as many as the top two combined. Who do you suppose he should hand it off to?
This smells like a “nobody appreciates how much I’ve been carrying this project” situation. That complicates things.
> Who do you suppose he should hand it off to?
Like I said, anyone would be better than nobody.