Finding a maintainer for a mature package: lru-dict

[petersuter]

There is also compat-fork (creating a new package without involvement of the original maintainer):

New project: compat-fork

I’d like to announce a new project: compat-fork · GitHub. It’s a home for fixing up projects on PyPI that need some minor touchups to keep working with newer versions of Python or other maintenance needs. I started this project because I’ve encountered several situations where a library I was depending on somewhere stopped receiving updates (which is fine; maintainers are usually volunteers, and they are not obligated to keep working on projects). It’s often easy enough to get the package worki…