Vim editor author dies, core developer Christian Brabandt announces follow-up plan to take over the project

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen soft media user 1520111 for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com Bram Moolenaar, creator, maintainer and lifelong leader of Vim Editor, died of illness on August 3, 2023 at the age of 62. CTOnews.com reported earlier that his family published this sad news on Vim-announce Google Group. His death also left a huge gap for Vim Project.

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A few days ago, Christian Brabandt, the core developer of Vim, announced the future plans of the project. In the vim_dev mailing list, he announced that he had obtained the management rights of Vim on Github from the Bram family and invited more developers to join the Vim organization.

At present, Vim's new development team is beginning to merge commits, and their main goals are to fix bugs, provide security patches and document updates.

Other plans of the new development team include:

Release Vim 9.1 after clearing current backlog

Make Vim more modern

Take over administration and access to all Vim mailing lists

Unable to access Vim FTP main server temporarily, contacting Bram's family if they know credentials

Migrate Vim Project Home

Discuss whether to open source the Vim project homepage and use the power of the community to develop the project