IMO there isn't anything wrong with giving up on your hobby project or something which you wrote for fun; completely acceptable. But ignoring mails of faithful followers of your software/project as opposed to officially announcing that you no longer care for the project seems a bit harsh. Then again, YMMV...
Yeah I guess the problem is that the apathy sets in before you know you're actually done with a project. So you can delude yourself into thinking you'll actually love it again.
IMO there isn't anything wrong with giving up on your hobby project or something which you wrote for fun; completely acceptable. But ignoring mails of faithful followers of your software/project as opposed to officially announcing that you no longer care for the project seems a bit harsh. Then again, YMMV...
Yeah I guess the problem is that the apathy sets in before you know you're actually done with a project. So you can delude yourself into thinking you'll actually love it again.
If there are a bunch of people using it then someone else should be able to take over.
Starting an open source project shouldn't be a life maintenance sentence. Ideally it shouldn't be a one person job at all.
Obviously you should at least respond to emails or send them a form letter or make an announcement.
It would be nice to find someone to take over somehow. But who wants to maintain someone else's project (or their own)?