funny i got exactly that problem, I started a project 5 years ago to validate form, 5 years later 2 major refactor, a freaking lot of pull requests i do not reconize that project anymore

problem with other maintainers is they come and go, my best one stayed about a year.

my other problem is that project kind of shine with its 1000 stars on github so loosing that reputation impact my cv..

So i'm stuck releasing . version for critical issues every couple of months

Why are you posting this obvious blogspam that obviously violates the HN guidelines?

Nice try, EllisLab.