On 26/02/14 21:36, Christian Brabandt wrote:
And the user will decide, which fork to use instead. As happened 20
years ago
with the many vi clones, when vim became the de facto standard. So what?
I'm a user and I, like the OP, would like to know how the stability and
future of
my editor of choice is going to be assured in the event that anybody
(including
possibly yourself if you took that opportunity) could/would not to do it
any more.
Especially those individuals *who have paid money* to contribute to and
further
ViM's development, they have a right to know.
Can we please focus on actual problems instead of discussing some
hypothetical
questions? Thanks.
For any open source project that takes users money and believes it is
"valued" by
a large "user base", this is far from "hypothetical"; it is a very real
and non-trivial
discussion.
You want to see how it really should be done? Then read this:
http://p2pfoundation.net/Linux_-_Governance
(section called "Governance").
At least I know that Linux, its stability, and all it stands for, is
assured with or
without Mr. Torvalds. I'm sure that the world's biggest corporations
feel equally
as confident as I do which is why they stake their reputations on it
24/7, 365.
I agree, there are patches and features that need implementing. And for
you, as
a person who regularly contributes patches, that's a position I'm sure
you find
easy to take. However the *majority* of users who don't get involved in
physical
patch writing, will care more about whether their editor of choice has a
stable
future or not, not necessarily what goes into it. They are especially
not interested
in seeing maintenance for their favourite editor splinter into multiple
factions and
watching a big free-for-all to see who "wins", as if it was some kind of
horse race.
That kind of upheaval is something we don't need and shouldn't have to
inflict on
our users.
For all of us, but especially for our loyal "user base", this is an
issue that should
be addressed to some degree sooner rather than later.
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