Sad to see this. I'm using Actix in a new project and have been watching the project for a while. Guess I'll be refactoring to use Hyper. If I were farther along I'd probably try to take ownership, but it doesn't make sense given that it's only around 40 LOC in my project that depend on Actix at this point so switching out to another framework is more straightforward than taking ownership of a codebase I don't know.
I understand fafhrd91's (the maintainer) frustration, but it would have been much better to just abandon the project and throw it up for some other volunteer to come in and take it over. Then the project can live on and he can bask in any success it has in the years down the road. Instead, it's a complete mess where all the good work and good will has been undone in a single move.
I've abandoned multiple OSS projects over the years and let other maintainers come in and take them over. Now over 10 years later I can still say I created that project that still gets used because other people have seen value in continuing to contribute and maintain it.
I understand fafhrd91's (the maintainer) frustration, but it would have been much better to just abandon the project and throw it up for some other volunteer to come in and take it over. Then the project can live on and he can bask in any success it has in the years down the road. Instead, it's a complete mess where all the good work and good will has been undone in a single move.
I've abandoned multiple OSS projects over the years and let other maintainers come in and take them over. Now over 10 years later I can still say I created that project that still gets used because other people have seen value in continuing to contribute and maintain it.