Comment by zephen

It's commendable that your organization did this.

But...

> the maintainer needs to have some self-restraint and accept that they don't owe them anything.

Assumes (especially in cases where "maintainer == original author" psychological capabilities that simply might not exist in the maintainer.

I don't know of a good way to deal with this, other than to be kind and try to notice potential signs of impeding burn-out before an implosion.