In addition to code changes, there were also policies and processes put into place, as well as the inftrastructure to run the show.
A little less looking forward and a little more helping out will take you much farther in open source.
If you don’t have time and motivation to maintain it, then you haven’t really forked anything…you just made a copy and stripped some stuff. It’s unclear to me someone would intentionally waste their time on this rather than just contributing to the project. And, lovely introduction to the community.