Frankly, I take the opposite view. Code that is not supported from a developer standpoint should be deprecated. If an organization doesn't want to spend the resources to support part of a code base, I support excising that part of the code base from the product. Especially in open source, others are free to fork.
Google Chrome is proprietary. Chromium is open source. You cant just directly fork Google Chrome itself. However, Chromiums development goals are hijacked by Google Chromes motives. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
