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>>>>> "SD" == Sean Doran <smd@ebone.net> writes:

 SD> Hm, I think it would be as easy as 

... if it's deemed necessary, appointing a new maintainer (responsible
to the GNU project) and getting access to Lars's machine to make
changes, if only to point people elsewhere.

 SD> No, users should not run development sources, unless they
 SD> are prepared to deal with unexpected bugs.

Doubtless, but I don't see any essential difference between a typical
Gnus release and the head of the development tree at some arbitrary
time.  Which is not to say there shouldn't be one.

There does appear to me to be encouragement, sometimes necessity, for
users to run unstabilized development sources.