Rescurrecting the Dead

Have you ever considered what would happen when a popular open source package is abandoned?
Now, what about when that package is one of your essential dependencies?

This scenario is not some abstract scenario for a far away future. Projects get abandoned every day and your dependency might be next... But you can help!
Come & listen to some tales of an accidental maintainer and learn about what you can do to help try and prevent these situations from getting out of hand.