Original link: https://blog.othree.net/log/2023/08/11/vim-boss-passed-away/
Bram Moolenaar, the author of Vim, passed away at the beginning of the month . It has been about a week since the news came out. Vim’s official website also made an official announcement two days ago. There are also some directions . The current situation is that another maintainer of Vim, Christian Brabandt, is in charge, including the maintenance of Vim itself, website hosting and website modification, and the integration of various services used (such as where to put the binary), In fact, there are many things about how to handle future donations, and this article is to record some things I have seen in the past few days.
Bram Moolenaar actually worked at Google for a long time before, and he didn’t retire until October 2021. In The Register’s report , there was part of the interview at that time, but it was not published as a report due to various reasons. In fact, it depends on the content. I also felt that he still had some retirement plans at the time, and then a year later, in October 2022, Bram mentioned in the mailing-group that he had health problems , and the maintenance of Vim had already been interrupted at that time, and then The news of his death this year, to be honest, was caught off guard, and Bram was only 62 years old, and the life expectancy in European countries is actually seventy or eighty.
Going back to the relationship between me and Vim, apart from the fact that I spent a lot of effort on html5.vim in the early days, in fact, I am still the maintainer of csscomplete.vim in the runtime. I just checked and found that I have not updated for a long time, and then I shared about the Vim License in COSCUP last year. There is a special provision in the text of the Vim License , that is, the dispute over open source or not is left to the Vim maintainer to decide. The text also directly states that the current maintainer is Bram, and now there is a question whether this article needs to be modified. In addition, there is another vim.org mail server. I don’t know if there is a way to transfer it, otherwise [email protected] will not be able to continue to use; in fact As far as I know, that provision doesn’t seem to have really worked. I think the chances of using it in the future should be very small, and I don’t know if there will be a single maintainer in the future. I judge that the community will tend to Let’s keep the text intact.
Finally, in fact, the author (author) and committer (committer) of each commit in Git can be different people, but in the early days of Vim, it was always the old-fashioned way of sending an email to submit a patch to Bram, and then Bram commits it into the repository. When I wanted to use Gmail to submit, there was a problem that the content of the file was too long, and Gmail could not send this kind of letter. Later, I used the tool of cli to send the letter, and then I started to receive GitHub PR, but Bram did not directly Use the above function to merge, but pull down the same patch, keep the author information and then commit it into the repository, so it was easy to see the picture at the beginning of the article on GitHub, all of which are Bram’s avatar, and now the new one The commits have also started to come in, so the latest place can no longer see this.
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