Find a maintainer or update support condition

[philoserf]

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What did you do (e.g., steps to reproduce)

I watched this repository and related Jekyll GitHub Pages repositories begin to look like abandoned-ware.

What did you expect to happen?

I expected somebody with authority in the project to maintain the code, respond to potential contributors, and to handle security issues identified with its dependencies. I expect GitHub to maintain and improve the system it created.

What happened instead?

I saw the project slowly increase in the number of unhandled and unacknowledged issues, pull requests, and security findings.

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[TWiStErRob]

@yoannchaudet as recent committer on master, can you please give an update on plans re this gem. Is it alive/is it dead? Are you maybe secretly working towards #651 🤞? It would be nice if the documentation reflected GitHub's current recommendation as to how to create a GitHub Pages site in 2024. e.g. this page still recommends to use the seemingly unmaintained pages-gem.