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Hitch, I'm not trying to draw you back into this, I just want to say that it's clear from all your posts that sigil's good health has always been a priority for you. I don't accuse you of trying to intentionally undermine it in any way. I was just worried that, perhaps in despair, your talk of forking was doing that, anyway. For the reasons I outlined, forking a living project is problematic. If sigil becomes dead as a doornail, then forking makes sense, but not until then.
People showing up to implement what they themselves need is normal for open source programs. The fact that most disappeared again from sigil shows that it largely does what it needs to do. When EPUB3 becomes necessary for many, I expect that some fresh developers will come to help implement that, as well. I see the current situation more as a lull in sigil's development rather than the death rattle. As long as it remains a viable place to come and make changes, then it won't be dead. I say this to everyone here, let's not give sigil the coup de grace just to end our own sense of desperation.
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