The switch to a modern, understandable, build system coupled cleaning up a lot of the bit rot that accumulated over the years has made the project more appealing to work on. Hopefully people who would like to contribute fixes and improvements will be more inclined to do so now that builds no longer take 20 minutes and compiling no longer emits hundreds of warnings.
Link[1] to announcement on mailing list.<p>[1] <a href="https://groups.google.com/d/msg/korn-shell/7VAqQg1N5D8/XniWn__RBgAJ" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/d/msg/korn-shell/7VAqQg1N5D8/XniWn...</a>