Helm development is stalled for now

[thierryvolpiatto]

See README for more infos.
Only a bugfix maintenance will be done if bugs are important enough, bugs like #2079 or #2082 will be ignored.

[alphapapa]

Are you planning to announce this officially, e.g. on /r/Emacs?

Thanks for your work on Helm. I consider it an essential tool, and wouldn't want to use Emacs without it.

[thierryvolpiatto]

alphapapa <notifications@github.com> writes:

Are you planning to announce this officially, e.g. on /r/Emacs?

No, but if you are used to communicate on such list you can announce it.

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-- Thierry

[cmccloud]

Will you be accepting pull requests for bug fixes? Regardless, thanks very much for your work. Enjoy your much deserved break.

[thierryvolpiatto]

Christopher McCloud <notifications@github.com> writes:

Will you be accepting pull requests for bug fixes?

Depend the pull request, all complex pull requests or pull requests that may trigger unpredictable bugs will not be merged, by experience these PR needs a lot of work for reviewing or/and after a lot of work to fix the side effect they may trigger.

Regardless, thanks very much for your work. Enjoy your much deserved break.

Thanks.

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-- Thierry

[edumerco]

Just wanted to thank you for your work on helm. As a non technical emacs users, helm made things so much easier and measurable that I hope you have that much deserved break.

Thanks again... :)

If some donation could help, just say it so we can jump in.

[ReneFroger]

Thierry, we owe you a lot. I have noticed already long time ago that you're doing work for the Helm development nearly every day from 2011. I just registered to become a Patreon, and I will donate $3 each month.

Note that Helm is more downloaded than Magit from MELPA. Magit does have many contributors. And Magit does even have more donations (five times more!) than Helm.

$3 dollars, that's an amount you're already spending with some groceries each day, if not more. Let alone $3 every month.
If you, and other 128 users, are reading this post now, and did the same thing, then the fundraiser should be done in 1 day and the Helm development could continue.

Please help with donating as a way to support Thierry Volpattio to keep it up with Helm. Or we perhaps we couldn't see Helm anymore to keep it up with Emacs development.

[cmccloud]

Donating as well.

[rislah]

why would I pay for someone to do development an open source package that everyone can contribute to? are you a bit idiot?
"After reaching $500 per month, I should be able to work on feature requests and more, for now only basic maintainance of Helm will be done." like a child tantrum. just shows youre out for money thats it, if you want money then go to work and not beg. nobody is forcing you to do development on this package. real child

[ReneFroger]

@GoingFast don't be rude please.
It's true that nobody is forcing Thierry to do development on this package. But many succesfull Emacs extensions are built by people like Thierry Volpattio. Note that Helm is already more downloaded than Magit. And Magit does even have more donations (five times more!) than Helm.

Thus given that view, the lack of donations for Helm seems to be a proper issue which should be addressed, even it's voluntary.

Though Thierry is considerably talented, he's in a situation similar to a fine artist because the market has not figured out how to value and reward the work which Thierry feel called to do. Unlike most artists, it wouldn't be difficult for Thierry Volpattio to get a well-paid job - but then he have to work on what an employer wants, rather than what a large community of people would want. So why not donate a little amount for that work?

And yes, true, why would you pay for? It's mostly voluntary work, because there is no way to wrap a business model around one of the most essential packages for Emacs.

[alphapapa]

@GoingFast Who even are you? Thierry has freely given thousands of hours of his time making Helm and other projects that he freely shares with us. Shame on you for making such a comment here. Begone.

[rislah]

@alphapapa who the fuck are u to ask me who am I? ure random so stfu and @ReneFroger I wouldnt have problem with him asking money but hes throwing a tantrum like a child and forcing ppl to pay X amount strictly every month otherwise he will drop it. Seems like guy is in financial problems so go to work and not beg and if youre serious about your claims @thierryvolpiatto then drop the development like the child you are. You others can pay if you want I will just leech off you guys then, 0 coming from me

[alphapapa]

@GoingFast You have been reported to GitHub. Do not post here again.