I’m also concerned about what @antron’s hiatus means for his other packages. Several of my own packages depend on his markup package, and I recently rewrote my camyll package so that it would not need his lambdasoup library: The reason for my change is that lambdasoup does not support OCaml 5, even though the fix is not so difficult and @kit-ty-kate has an outstanding PR for it.
I myself am at home recovering from a major medical operation and am currently weak. In the hospital, I also spent my time recovering in the same room as other people of various health and age. As a result, I began to think about my own mortality. As this topic relates to OCaml, what would happen to any of my libraries that other people are using if I died or became otherwise incapable of maintaining them?
Should OCaml have a plan for if a package maintainer disappears or becomes unable to work anymore?