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?

To clarify, the article link should have been to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/193859/how-sh..., not to http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/what-t....

Nice try, EllisLab.