About two years--a lifetime--ago I put together an open source Ruby gem called "Formtastic Bootstrap" which attracted a small-to-moderate sized user base.<p>In those two years my life has changed considerably and I no longer have the time time to devote to this side project. I'm looking for someone to help and give the project some love on a day-to-day basis.<p>While the project has attracted a few handfuls of bug reports, pull requests and lots of forks, it doesn't seem to have produced it's next maintainer. I've reached out privately to a couple of committers but never received a reply that demonstrated real excitement at the prospect. I made a public request a few months ago on my blog which met with no response. I'm making another one now on Github itself and I will also reach out to the local (Boston) Ruby group.<p>I'm loathe to just hand the keys to the first person who raises their hand. Though I haven't been the best project maintainer, I still have a lot of pride in what I've built: people find it useful, the code is pretty clean (for a huge monkey-patch) and it has a robust test suite.<p>Has this happened to you? How did you find people to actively maintain your open source project?