[daneel_w]

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.

[lbriner]

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?

[daneel_w]

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.

[watwut]

It is not like he would be the only person capable of contributing into it ever.

[more_corn]

Isn’t it relevant though? The sole author and support person is AFK for the foreseeable future.

[prmoustache]

Edward Shishkin has been the main maintener of reiser4 for years.

[sp332]

Besides the fact that other people have been maintaining it, he was sentenced to 15 years in 2008. He could be out next year.