The tech notes are particularly useful: https://bsago.me/tech-notes
There’s a ray of hope on their RSS feed: https://bsago.me/tech-notes/feed.json
The last published date is September 2022, which is almost a year after their last GitHub activity: https://github.com/ogham?tab=overview&from=2021-12-01&to=202...
So in absence of other information, I’d rather believe they’re ok. I’ve gone through periods of my life where I blow off all existing responsibilities and reinvent myself. A big project like exa comes with a lot of responsibilities that don’t become apparent until it explodes in popularity; it’s understandable for people to want to disassociate from those.
Some might argue that open source authors have a responsibility to communicate status, but it seems like Benjamin fulfilled that by making sure exa had additional maintainers that could update the readme with a deprecation notice.
One other strange phenomenon is that when you run from a responsibility, it can feel like more and more of a hurdle to come back and face it, at least for me. So it’s probably best to assume they’re fine and to put as little pressure on them as possible. Even just popping in to say “I’m still alive” can feel like pressure.
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