I admit I'm hoping (although not remotely expecting) that now that Spectrum is part of the GitHub/Microsoft nexus, they'll contribute some development time to g

I admit I'm hoping (although not remotely expecting) that now that Spectrum is part of the GitHub/Microsoft nexus, they'll contribute some development time to getting RethinkDB going again, even if it requires another fork -- there was a brief "RebirthDB" fork that was, theoretically, going to become the official release, but that seems to have stalled, too. The 2.4 release has been "nearly ready" for over two years now, and I'm kind of afraid that the lost momentum will be unrecoverable very soon, assuming we're not already past that point.