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# What? With this issue I am announcing my retirement from **NERDTree**. It's been a good six years, full of many enhancements and fixes for this much-loved plugin, but it's time for me to move on. # Why? 1. I'm tired, and I've been procrastinating other things. 1. Every application has an expiration date, and **NERDTree** has many years left in it. But Vim 8+ and Neovim have introduced new capabilities that other authors have exploited to write very good alternatives - plugins whose features **NERDTree** would have a very difficult time assimilating. In a very real sense, **NERDTree** is the inspiration for many similar plugins that came after it. It may be time to pass the torch. You may disagree with me. That's OK; I'm not offended. All I ask is that you get involved if you think **NERDTree** should continue. 1. I have noticed that as I took on more responsibility as maintainer, participation from the user community fell off in both the discussion of issues and the authoring of pull requests. My hope is that trend will reverse itself as I step away. # Now What? If you are interested in becoming a collaborator, leave a comment below. I will continue monitoring this thread, and will make appropriate evaluations of interested parties. @scrooloose, @lifecrisis, and @alerque, I invite you to weigh in, as well. Thanks, Phil
Posted by PhilRunninger on Oct 29, 2021, 3:57 AM
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To be fair, Inform7 can't succeed, generally, because there is no market for the kind of games that you create with Inform7.
New> The notion that somehow LR reliability is misunderstood by Consumer Reports, JD Power, Car & Driver, Automobile etc.
Custom trigger IDs are not displayed in the new 2026.10 trigger selector
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Help Wanted: New Collaborator
# What? With this issue I am announcing my retirement from **NERDTree**. It's been a good six years, full of many enhancements and fixes for this much-loved plugin, but it's time for me to move on. # Why? 1. I'm tired, and I've been procrastinating other things. 1. Every application has an expiration date, and **NERDTree** has many years left in it. But Vim 8+ and Neovim have introduced new capabilities that other authors have exploited to write very good alternatives - plugins whose features **NERDTree** would have a very difficult time assimilating. In a very real sense, **NERDTree** is the inspiration for many similar plugins that came after it. It may be time to pass the torch. You may disagree with me. That's OK; I'm not offended. All I ask is that you get involved if you think **NERDTree** should continue. 1. I have noticed that as I took on more responsibility as maintainer, participation from the user community fell off in both the discussion of issues and the authoring of pull requests. My hope is that trend will reverse itself as I step away. # Now What? If you are interested in becoming a collaborator, leave a comment below. I will continue monitoring this thread, and will make appropriate evaluations of interested parties. @scrooloose, @lifecrisis, and @alerque, I invite you to weigh in, as well. Thanks, Phil
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