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Yes. Pretty much everyone is aware of the elephant in the room. It's just not relevant to address said elephant since it has no bearing on technical discussions

Yes. Pretty much everyone is aware of the elephant in the room. It's just not relevant to address said elephant since it has no bearing on technical discussions, which is what the author of the e-mail thread pro-actively underlined.

more_corn 5y ago
Isn’t it relevant though? The sole author and support person is AFK for the foreseeable future.
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- prmoustache 5y ago
  Edward Shishkin has been the main maintener of reiser4 for years.
- sp332 5y ago
  Besides the fact that other people have been maintaining it, he was sentenced to 15 years in 2008. He could be out next year.
lbriner 5y ago
The fact he is a murderer might not be relevant to the discussion per-se but his unavailability to help fixes/improvements to be made is a big issue as the author of the FS. I don't know anything about it and whether other contributors are able to give as much input as he could but judging by the comments of unfixed bugs and few commits, it would sound like it is a big risk of stagnation. No?
- watwut 5y ago
  It is not like he would be the only person capable of contributing into it ever.
- daneel_w 5y ago
  Everyone understands the implications for a piece of software when its principal developer disappears. Wallowing in the details won't change anything. It's been years already.