On Sun, Jan 04, 2026 at 11:59:52AM +0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
No, sorry it's highly unlikely. Mutt has been in maintenance mode for
the past 4 years. At this point my time is very limited, so I handle
security issues or occasionally tiny fixes or improvements. But not
large changes like this anymore.
You might want to head over to the NeoMutt project and see what they think.
If this continues, eventually Mutt will die. That's what happens to
software when development ends.
I don't want that. Mutt is a programmer's mail reader -- powerful,
flexible, configurable -- and done at high quality. I'm not satisfied
with NeoMutt as a successor. Anyway, if Mutt dies, NeoMutt will
probably die sometime later.
Kevin is trying to step down from being the maintainer. Nobody has
volunteered to take over his job as it is, understandably. He seems to
have done it mostly by himself, and that's a lot of work.
I think we need a different organization, one that distributes the
responsibility and work, and the control of the code, among more
people. Maybe there could be a team of 5-10 people that takes
responsibility for Mutt, with contributions from many other people, who
might join the core team someday. Part of the job would be ongoing
encouragement and help for contributors.
Ideas?
