What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorcycle? Core-js just found out

What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many?

In November 2019, Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the popular core-js library, lost an appeal to overturn an 18-month prison sentence imposed for driving his motorcycle into two pedestrians, killing one of them."