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Re:If this project is dead, just tell us by medmunds on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:02PM (#21783800)
I’m in a similar situation, maintaining a project that’s used widely enough it should probably have a continuity plan, but not enough that it’s developed a robust community of other contributors who could step in.

Jazzband [0] seems meant to address exactly this: “a collaborative community to share the responsibility of maintaining Python-based projects.” And it looked promising, but it’s not entirely clear that the Jazzband project itself is all that active (only news status update is the launch announcement from 2015; last public Twitter activity was in 2017).

[0]: https://jazzband.co/

Re:If this project is dead, just tell us by medmunds on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:34PM (#21784098)
Oh, just realized that pip-tools (being discussed favorably downthread as a pipenv alternative) is a Jazzband member project: https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools.