If I were a project manager who run a sourceforge account the last thing I would do now is abandon it.
Why? Because SF have proven if I were to do so they'd take my work under my name and bundle their crap into it. The only way to stop that is to keep it active.
That feeling of being trapped into a terrible system because it'll screw over people even worse if you leave.
GIMP-win owner actually did upload new binaries to SF account. There hasn't been a GIMP release for a while, but the SF repo was never abandoned. SF is blatantly lying about this. So no, not abandoning the account won't save you.
> they'd take my work under my name and bundle their crap into it.
Oh, is that a thing? I was surprised when the Lobo project's admin rights were handed over to some relatively unknown developer. I had a long and confusing discussion with the new project admin here: https://github.com/UprootLabs/gngr/issues/87#issuecomment-86...
Why? Because SF have proven if I were to do so they'd take my work under my name and bundle their crap into it. The only way to stop that is to keep it active.
That feeling of being trapped into a terrible system because it'll screw over people even worse if you leave.