Will Jekyll ever be a Github-owned project?

[kevinSuttle]

I realize Tom and others have worked very hard on Jekyll, and that this isn't your product, but I wanted to hear your opinion on the matter. The project is arguably falling behind as far as maintenance goes. Seeing how it's such a big part of Github/Pages, do you think Tom would hand it as a product from Github to be regularly maintained and improved, or that an official fork would be created?

[holman]

It is already.

We'll likely be hiring someone to work more on Gollum and Jekyll, but that likely won't include a lot of feature additions and things of that nature. We favor stability, and we can't include every little pull request that comes by. It's likely a better solution to fork Jekyll if you want better responsiveness in the community for extensions, etc.

[touchy-feely]

Is there a place to follow the development of Jekyll? Dev group or is it on iRC etc? Thanks.
Dan

[bencevans]

@touchy-feely https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll & http://groups.google.com/group/jekyll-rb