Andreas Smas the project founder is still the underlying "owner" of most things, with infrastructure for the project entangled among other home/work/side-project things of his, and over time as maintainers have come and gone his need to be restrictive with rights/permissions has resulted in the people with access not being active, and the active people having limited or no permissions/rights. As a result, when things have gone down it's not been clear who's running things, who has access, etc. and it's taken time for the message to filter through to the one (super busy) person who can fix the problem.
I've now inserted myself in the process and have been in direct contact with Andreas alongside Florian (Flole998, the closest we have to a project lead) and a few other names around the project to start the process of documenting infrastructure/accounts/credentials and separating things. DNS for the domain is now running in a new Cloudflare account that we have full rights over (registrar transfer still to be done, but will happen soon hopefully) which is important since it's essential for moving things around. There are new accounts with a number of other services and things the project needs to function. All the important (but private) info is being stored in a central 1Password account (we applied for and now have a free FOSS account) and we aim to have multiple active/contactable people with admin/superuser/owner rights to everything so continuity isn't an issue again. At some point we also need to remove rights from those no longer around too, as that's a security issue.
There is a private Discord channel running so that there's some real-time 'team' chat so people are aware of what I'm up to (and can give input and own tasks) and I've reached out to past maintainers and anyone who I could find an email address for who's been active on here and GitHub in the last year. The number of current acceptances is small, and the number of people active in the chat is smaller (some lurkers). You're on my list of people to invite, but I can't trace an email for you; we don't (yet) have proper admin access to this Redmine site (we asked, but Andreas has been offline for a week again) so we can't look people up in the user DB. If you'd like to drop me a note on chewitt@tvheadend (domain) I'll ping you a link.
I have no agenda towards Kodi/LibreELEC and Tvheadned direction. I'm simply someone in the ecosystem of the project with time on his hands and experience in handling all the back-office setup and organisational stuff that keeps a FOSS project afloat (and that nobody else is doing). I'm not planning to run or lead the project. Iam planning to sort out some of its underlying issues and point it in a better direction.
One of the issues is, wherever you look, the project looks half-abandoned. It's not dead, but with a website where the most recent news post is 6-years old, a wiki full of outdated links and info, three sets of documenation that's mostly two releases behind, and an overly basic forum (missing all the admin/security tools you need, and looking like something from 2008) fuels persistent rumours of the project being in steep decline. Updating Redmine and the server it runs on would be nice but ultimately doesn't solve most of the admin/security/governance problems, so it will be a team decision to make, but it's days are proably numbered and my post in the LE forums is optimistic that we get to do that sooner than later. We do need to get DB access here (depends on Andreas) before we can take a decision on whether a migration is technically possible or at all sensible, or perhaps we simply grandfather it (make it read-only) for a while so content can be transferred (copy/paste) while something new starts to thrive.
The forum is only one of the jigsaw pieces needed to move the project down the long dark tunnel towards the bright light where a v4.4 release occurs. I hope you reach out.
Christian
