I just wish there was some official announcement on the pm-utils list, and not just this "its dead Jim" on the upower list when people inquire about continued support.
As for people still reporting bug, that does not contradict my mention of "maintenance". Pm-utils may well have been feature complete, and whacking bugs introduced by new hardware would then file under maintenance.
All in all it feels like non of the decisions are being made on the lists, and rather being decisions either via direct emails or via corporate channels.
I doubt it's this one. There's one or two messages to the mailing list each month or two month about a bug in some chipset or another.
> I can't shake the impression that user space devs are deathly afraid of their project going "maintenance", and thus either abandon it or depreciate it for a new take on the same problem space (that in turn gets to the same point etc etc etc).
Or perhaps it was an underserved portion of the ecosystem, and the people maintaining it left, or decided they wanted in on what systemd was doing, and as project eventually (5+ years later!) swicth away from it to the next (only?) thing which should get new features, being actively developed, that just happens to include systemd. You can either see that as "systemd is eating everything" or "systemd filled a need, and projects had been waiting for that". Whichever one is more true probably requires a deeper look into the details, but that people assumed it was the former (IMO because of mob mentality, not because of any careful thought on the details), that's the story that survives unless someone spends some effort to refute it.