Thread:Extension talk:WYSIWYG/Why does the page say that the extension is not actively maintained?/reply (3)

That's the power and the weakness of free softwares : it only relies on community efforts. And though there are many good wills, there's a structural shortage of time (even for geeks). So it's no surprise there are mass movements following what the big ones do with their paid coders (Wikipedia, but the same for Ubuntu...) and that what they abandon tend to be abandoned. Personaly I would have followed the movement, in order to save time, being sure many other work on the same project and that problems tend to be quicly solved. But I can't install VisualEditor.

Happily Riparad did a great job here on WYSIWIG !