On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:12 AM, Boris Mann wrote:
And, of course, the fact that the users and other developers have been
trying to get in touch with the maintainer for 3 - 4 weeks with no
response.
Unfortunately, I feel that our hands are tied on this matter.
It's true that the maintainer has not actively participated in these threads, closed any issues, or responded to personal emails. However, he is continuing to commit to this "forked" version. Last week, he added a comma-delimited text field where you can type in the node types you wish TinyMCE to appear on (!).
While he might not be communicating or coding in a way that most of us would agree with, this module is arguably still being maintained. Unless we hear otherwise from Drupal-id, I'm afraid that the only fair choice is to create a *third* TinyMCE project to maintain the un-forked version.
Hopefully, this can serve as a warning about handing our modules off to new maintainers. TinyMCE was an important and popular module, yet this new maintainer had no previous modules or community participation. After 6 months of being listed as a maintainer, the very first commit - ever - was this controversial fork.