Re: NonGNU ELPA: taking over/forking ws-butler

[Stefan Monnier]

> I wrote the following e-mail to Le Wang a fortnight ago and have
> received no response.  And he has not been active on github, where
> ws-butler was developed, in some years.

Sadly, nowadays many people don't read their email or don't reply.
[ IME, more and more people use their email account only as a kind of
  authenticator for 2FA or password recovery. 🙁  ]
[ Also, sometimes they just change their email address.  ]

I'd recommend you open a (very short and focused) issue on the upstream
Github about this, asking for help contacting him, in case he does read
that, or in case someone else reads that who knows another way to
reach him.

BTW, https://github.com/lewang suggests he contributed to something(?)
over there recently (on Sept 25).

>> Stefan, do you think it would be okay if I go ahead and essentially
>> fork it by maintaining it out of nongnu-elpa.git?

Changing the upstream (to `nongnu.git` or anywhere else) due to a new
maintainership is fine, yes.

But of course doing it without the former maintainer's consent is not ideal.
I think it deserves waiting a bit more than a fortnight.


        Stefan