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+20220125:
+About a year ago the project reached a stable state for most of my use-cases
+this development stagnated a bit and went into "if something goes wrong 
+write it down and continue on" mode. 
+During this period the we've accumulated:
+	- quite a list of known bugs
+	- quite a backlog of breaking updates of upstream software (electron)
+
+In addition to this and a couple of other events I had trouble finding 
+motivation to dig in.
+
+It is about time to schedule a big revision run to fix the accumulated 
+set of issues and implement several planned features.
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