What was reported:
Issue earthly/earthly#4313 (closed, 38 comments): ### Question
Everything is in the title. Thank you!
What works:
Earthly the company stopped actively maintaining the project, which is why the 'dead project?' question came up. The maintainer responded by organizing a community fork effort: 40 people volunteered and a kick-off call was scheduled for interested contributors. If you depend on Earthly, plan around the community fork rather than waiting for upstream releases, and check the issue thread for how to get involved.