this repo (but the project itself) is obviously dead : pull requests from years ago ave never bee merged, and no reaction from the repo owner. I have merged all pull requests on my own fork https://github.com/petaflot/pygcode and will be making active use of the code base.

in general, how does it happen when the individual(s) who maintain a project become unavailable for a long term? can this project be removed from the pip repos?