He hasn’t. Remember - Ben, like the rest of us, does this in addition to full time work. You might not have noticed, but there are a lot of bugs and feature requests demanding attention…and very little development time to work on them.
As a rule, asking for updates, status, or timeframe won’t hurry things along. That’s why the Code of Conduct includes the following:
- Don’t “bump” conversations or tag individuals/groups with the sole purposes of speeding up response times.
If you want to help get a bug resolved or feature implemented quicker, here’s some things you can do, depending on your available time and skills:
- Vote. This raises the priority in planning. Anyone can do this.
- Help diagnose. Checking logs, testing out scenarios, or even digging around in the code if you’re up to the challenge all help move towards a resolution.
- Coordinate with other reporters. If you see similar bug reports, possible duplicates, or other posts with hints, helping get those individuals involved in diagnostics helps a lot!
- Attempting a PR. If you know anything about coding — even a little — you can check out the Mailspring source code from GitHub and try to fix the bug or implement the feature yourself. Even if you aren’t successful, or the fix isn’t ideal, the attempt still helps us!
And, of course, you can help just by being involved in the community: helping answer questions, triage bugs, and discuss features takes pressure off the developers, so they have time to focus on writing awesome code.