He said he has no time at the moment, but hopes to return (date unknown).
If you read that as “retired”, feel free, but even “away now” will delay things.
He said he’s keeping the release making. Commits were not solely his area.
Someone else (now inactive) was helping on some (maybe not the trickiest).
Above is picking on summary tone, but we’re obviously in a slow period now.
How long will it take to regroup a bit? Probably we’ll have to see how it goes.
I’m pretty sure that limited volunteers in limited areas can help, so volunteer.
Nice would be a larger set of people to call on for specific talents they bring.
In the short term, we have who we have, and they do what they can for now.
@gpatel-fr has reported some marvelous work. I’ve long wanted test builds.
Supportability of Newer MacOS might be worth a look, both for macOS work
and for some sort of scheme of having people run artifacts. Compare notes?
@dgleadi might want to take a look at the above, and maybe search issues.
IIRC there was at least one person with some Macs that they could test with.
In terms of next releases, that might need a little more thought. Often there’s
a discussion among the staff (look for prior ones), but I like the general ideas.
Lower risk PRs and PRs fixing things that have broken over time are primary.
I’d also like reliability fixes, but sometimes PRs aren’t there yet. Anyone else?