On 02.04.14,19:31, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi Jo, > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 06:57:39PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: > [Axel prefers Savannah over GitHub] > > Many valid points there, Axel, and they are important to consider. > > Thanks. > > > But it might seem like the development at the savannah repository is > > a bit abandonded or have stalled, and that it is notoriously hard to > > get a new release of screen. > > Hrm, I do not really understand what you mean by "it is notoriously > hard to get a new release". Is this critism on the software being used > at Savannah or on some bureaucracy happening there? >
There has been several requests during a long period on this list and on the screen-users list for a new release since there are many updates in the repository that makes screen more useful. And the previous release was in 2008, but there have been no responses to it. A recent example: http://osdir.com/ml/screen-users-gnu/2014-03/msg00016.html Jostein