Nineteen minutes before opening the linked issue announcing that the development had been stalled, he removed a chunk of text from the README: https://github.co

Nineteen minutes before opening the linked issue announcing that the development had been stalled, he removed a chunk of text from the README: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commit/9a5258db9c7bb12698d8feb7b255006f134594e5 https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commit/9a5258db9c7bb12698... Here's how it looked before that change: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/23f32ec37dadea5656fb73f49a487b8136952015/README.md https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/23f32ec37dadea5656fb... Here's a representation of the text for those who don't want to click through: > Maintaining Helm requires a [lot of work](https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commits?author=thierryvolpiatto https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commits?author=thierryvol...), Thanks to all the people that are helping or have helped Helm development, > but they are actually too few. > If you feel Helm is making your daily work easier, > please consider making a donation. > Thank you! — Thierry Volpiatto > [PayPal link image][Pateron link image] The Patreon link doesn't seem to be working (the page is mostly blank, which seems like a bit of a bug on Patreon's end if nothing else). The PayPal link is still active. --- There was also this README change in May that removed some text: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commit/3be1389e3912d6580aac9c5532e2fa8fee88527c https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/commit/3be1389e3912d6580a... Which looked like this prior to the change: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/1fbb3a9f6da3285191621263660f3b3a9791f806/README.md https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/blob/1fbb3a9f6da328519162... Compressed representation: > Maintaining Helm requires a lot of work, which I have done voluntarily since 2011. As it demands lots of my time it gets increasingly difficult maintaining it without financial help. Thanks to all the people that are helping or have helped Helm development, but they are actually too few to continue serenely. By the way, after the release of version 3.0 I will have to stop developing Helm seriously until I get enough financial support, only providing a minimal bugfix maintenance. Thanks for your understanding > If you feel Helm is making your daily work easier, please consider making a donation. Thank you! — Thierry Volpiatto Development was also apparently stalled for a time in 2018-2019: https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2083 https://github.com/emacs-helm/helm/issues/2083 From my brief skimming, it seems like this has been coming on for a while, which is a sad thought. --- One more thing that might be meaningless, but which I think indicates a level of ongoing care about the project (which is not surprising given his past work on it). The commit that most recently modified the README accidentally undid the latest change he'd made, from two days before. He added another commit a minute later to re-apply it. A small thing, but I figured I'd mention it.