One can think, encouraging that someone who forked the project, sents a kind message to this list and I always want to be a proponent of restored relations, but still your message feels a bit misplaced here Filipe. There is no denying.
The fact that NSM didn't hit Debian (still not in Debian afaik), had nothing to do with the developer, it was because of NTK and waf. If you guys wanted, it was possible to maintain a version of NSM without NTK (Fltk only). I was helping Nils with it, at that moment, but behind my and I guess our backs you guys where working on a fork. I just became aware of it, when there arrived a message on the LAA mailinglist, while having e-mail contact regularly the same week with Nils. You guys didn't just forked, after telling that you would be forking and discussing it. You did choose for a huge and hidden coup. Also the fact that you guys call it the community version, still gives me a very bad taste. It's plain newspeak to present a well thought out 'coup', behind the core community, as social. That developer who didn't want to implement NSM was Hermann from Guitarix. I discussed NSM support for Guitarix for more then 7(!) years with him. His argumentation was that NSM should be in Debian first. Fair enough, but to name that as a reason for a fork... With having Argodejo as alternative GUI and a nsmd version which could be used in Debian, you guys had plenty space to hack around. But you did choose to fork also the FLTK original GUI. I can't conclude otherwise that your plan was to totally replace Non-Session-Manager with New-Session-Manager. Given the meaning of Non-Session-Manager for Linuxaudio and the contribution by it's developer, this still feels completely wrong. Especially the way you did it. So your message feels misplaced, sorry. And indeed, this is huge downside of the LAU community lately. These actions are cheered up by a small crowd who know each other well and is backing up each other, even while they don't use NSM themselves. Where the LAU community was a community of people with a scientific background and/ or creative non-mainstream thinking, it's now a group of witchhunters who call everyone with a different opinion a troll. Hail the community! But sorry, as we use to say in this part of the world: weeds do not die... Go male! :) Future? I don't see how these two projects can come together really. What the people of the fork could do, is to sent patches as much as possible to the original project maybe. And / or maybe get rid of the FLTK fork and focus on Argodejo only. Anyway, that's not my expertise, nor did I create this situation, nor do I want to waste my time on it.
