On 24-05-2022 18:58:46 +0200, Magnus Groß wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 09:38:50AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > >As I mentioned, development is in maintenance mode, so I'm not > >committing patches to master at this point. > > Has there been any strategy on how to continue development? > Surely it is not the plan to cease development completely.
I would like to second this. > I know that you asked for willing maintainers already, but I think you > will keep waiting forever if you expect someone to just go forward and > ask for maintainer rights. > > Perhaps it would be better to actively ask some of the major > contributors if they want to take over maintainership together, > otherwise development will never continue. > > A system could be setup where multiple of the new maintainers would need > to approve a patch and if it is a critical decision, then you could > still have the say about whether it gets merged. > > > In any case I think it is time to make a new plan about how development > can continue. It is easy to fork, etc. but this is how Mutt has evolved very large patches from all over (and basically resulted in NeoMutt). If we're not going to have anyone who can even commit small patches to development, then we're going back to how it was all before. I'd hate to see that happen. Is it inevitable? Thanks, Fabian > > -- > Magnus -- Fabian Groffen Gentoo on a different level
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