@hllizi In the mailing list he said that he thinks democracy does not work for a project, so it’s pretty likely that he’s a Trumpist now — we have no more contact.
As a personal rant:
Such stuff is pretty high on the list of things you don’t want to deal with when you’re voluntary dev and release-manager of a project.
Together with all the problems that came along with that, it occupied at least half a year of my free time.
But it’s done since the release of 1498 and we’re moving forward.