>Current Maintainer
<Benno Schulenberg
https://www.nano-editor.org/who.php
>some random blue hair attempts to damage control after GNU kicked nano out of GNU because they don't like Schulenberg
https://www.asty.org/archives/97
>As expected, the recent state of events where nano transitioned maintainership to Benno Schulenberg, and the project left GNU, has a lot of people speculating about what happened, and more (((disappointingly))), making some pretty (((nasty assertions))) about motivations. I want to try and give a brief update on them to hopefully (((calm things down))).
>I was mandating copyright assignment from Benno. (((False))). What happened: In an effort to transition maintainership to Benno, as he was clearly far more capable and available than I have been for some time, I tried to get him added to the GNU maintainers list to peacefuly transition the project to him. A private thread ensued between myself, GNU, and Benno, and
<what came out of that conversation was that Benno was not going to be allowed to become a maintainer of the project in GNU’s eyes.
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