Who Takes Over the Deli? – On maintenance, succession and who has commit rights

In January I sent a three-line patch to Tufte-LaTeX, a package with nearly two thousand stars. Six months later it is still open, the maintainers have stopped answering email, and a few of us are weighing up a fork. Sam Learner's FT piece on who cleans up after the vibe-coding party explains why that small failure is a large one — read him first, then come back for the view from inside the…