In light of having to fork Prototype.js in order to maintain compatibility with Vue.js, I had a few questions on the state of this project, especially after reading savetheclocktower's comment here about the project not doing further releases. I'm not aware of any historical discussions that may have been had in the past, so forgive me if I'm re-treading old territory, and feel free to point me to past discussions. For such an historic, and still widely-used project, some clarity would be good.

Have there been discussions in the past about handing over the project to new maintainers? There seem to be plenty of PRs from people capable of keeping the project alive. Was it that nobody could be found who was willing to take over the project, or were there other reasons for not relinquishing control?

Is there a community fork out there that people could be pointed to? If so, could this be mentioned in the README?

Since the project at the moment is not being maintained, it would be good to communicate this to the community and provide clarity to future users. This could be done by archiving the project, which would mark it as read-only. It might also useful to update the README to reflect this, with any relevant reasons behind the decision that should be publicly known, and the known current risks of using the library. It might also be useful to document any known issues/workarounds, such as the most recent CVE and Array.from issues.

Thanks to everyone who has done great work in the past to keep this alive, and looking forward to any discussion.