Comment 43 for bug 1662544

Thanks!

Taking a look at the broader picture:

A few years ago (during the GTK3 porting) I talked to Stephen in private mail, and it happened that we hit a tiny little bit more informal/personal tone than usual in professional environments. Thanks to this, I felt that after seeing him completely disappear, I should send him a mail going like "hey, how are you doing, I hope everything is fine" and nothing more, which I did this July. I didn't get a response either.

I'm afraid we can't exclude the possibility that he won't (can't) come back to this project any more. Grandma, MattRose, others, I think you should start thinking whether you wish to take on this project. You might ask Launchpad folks to grant you access to the repository (I don't know how it goes), or contact the project's previous maintainer Chris, or fork it (maybe even moving to github/gitlab or whatever, maybe slightly rebranding e.g. as terminator3), preferably in a way that more than 1 person has admin access.

There are quite a few other pending bugs, some of them are really low-hanging fruit (fixable in a minute or two), e.g. multiple reports about feed_child() taking the wrong number of parameters, or one about GTK no longer supporting narrow vs. wide pane separators, or revealing the new features of recent VTEs. Maybe it's your turn now to decide whether you focus solely on Python3 and nothing more, or start making some fixes like these, or even do an entire takeover of the project and give it a big boost (which many people would surely welcome and appreciate).