Maintainer Burnout

Definitions

Exhaustion and disengagement experienced by project maintainers due to constant support requests, issue triage, review load, entitlement from users, and limited compensation or shared responsibility. It is a major sustainability problem in open source infrastructure.
In plain English: Burnout caused by the pressure of continuously maintaining an open source project.
Example: "The project didn’t die from lack of users; it stalled because of maintainer burnout."