I've taken a look at the proposed API, what exactly is it helping us do? I
saw the groups, but the only thing that I understood is that contributing to
them would be advocating a need for an aggregation API, which frankly, I
don't think is needed at all (I'm open to other opinions though if they're
valid and convincing). Would the current 3 or 4 aggregation modules have
been justified if they utilized an aggregation API?
There is, however, one thing that I did see as very wrong. A module
developer can't just throw away his work, create an alternative module, and
leave things behind as if they've never been. Creating a module that
everyone depends on is an ethical responsibility that needs to be
transferred to someone who can manage it when the original author can't work
on it anymore. What has been achieved with leech could have also been
achieved by updating aggregator2 to become leech (albeit retaining its
aggregator2 name) without neglecting its users.