so long vim maintenance

Stefano Zacchiroli zack at debian.org
Tue Jul 21 15:22:14 UTC 2009


On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:00:55AM -0400, James Vega wrote:
> vim-addon-manager was one of my main targets for DebConf.  Setting up
> the local-store of which addons are actually installed will get rid of
> two big warts, IMO.

So, actually, we can work on it together "for the last time" here at
DebConf :-)

> > - finally, it looks like James has remained the only active member of
> >   the old team in maintaining Vim; maybe it's time to consider sending
> >   out a "call for help" for Vim maintenance?
> 
> It would probably be good to have some other eyes, but I think there is
> some dead weight in the workload.  I've never really found vim-scripts
> (and similar packages) to be particularly useful as something shipped in
> a distribution.

Uhm, I was actually thinking at the maintenance of Vim itself, but
hey: it's your call, you're doing a wonderful job basically alone
these days :)

Cheers

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