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I'd like to chime in on a few points of discussion here that I think are important and generally fall under the, "please slow down" heading. First, while it's quite novel that a usenet group is being formed, please do not move any official discussion there. It's more of a barrier to entry for people than javascript on a git repo. We have this mailing list. Stick with it. Second, I want to thank Sean for his help and acknowledge that like others I was not pestering him for updates as courtesy, not out of disinterest. Solderpunk established an early pattern of "make a change, then let it sit for a while". I thought Sean was doing the same regarding spec discussion, not realizing there was burn-out. I'm sorry. Third, while it's nice that we have backups of the repo and discussions, solderpunk has not handed over control of gemini to anyone else yet. That means that any decisions to do so are jumping the gun. I see one of three outcomes here: 1) solderpunk returns and is active again as BDFL. He's recently been active on gopher, so it's a possibility, but not likely. 2) solderpunk pokes his head in to appoint a new proxy leader or leaders. This would be wonderful and I've emailed him to suggest it. 3) The community takes control away from him and runs with it themselves. I would like to see this option the least, and certainly not before a reasonable amount of time is given for solderpunk to return or not. (I would recommend at least a month.) If that situation happens we should all take a breather and think hard about how to proceed and not just jump on whoever can clone the repo the fastest or whoever speaks the loudest on a mailing list. There's a larger gemini community watching and reading. Poke around in the IRC channels, read peoples gemlogs. Take some time here.
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