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Powerful ebook editor Sigil moved to new development area, looking for code contributions and active participation
Sigil is a free open-source WYSIWYG ebook editor, permitting an advanced ebook editing via a filled-with-controls yet intuitive interface.
Among its features, Sigil comes with:
- multiple views (book, code, preview)
- full UTF-16 support
- ability to directly edit book syntax
- table-of-contents creator with multi-level heading support
- more than 200 available entries in its metadata editor
- spell checking
- support for find & replace
essentially, a significant amount of features.
Yet, it seems that presently Sigil is traversing an unfortunate road, namely, its lack of code participation and involvement.
Today, the main Sigil maintainer announced that Sigil "has zero outside contributors as of now", being "on life support" due to inexistent participation to the project.
As a consequence, the developer has moved the development of Sigil on GitHub (from the now-old Google Code), hoping that the new development area,--GitHub--, will attract new interested developers willing to contribute code to the powerful ebook editor, "to help with gaining contributors I've decided to move the project to GitHub".
The new open-for-participation location is available on https://github.com/user-none/Sigil
"That's pretty much where Sigil is a this point. I can't say where it will go in the future but my hope is more people will contribute with the move to GitHub and Sigil will continue to grow".