Comment by zx2c4

I don't know anything about the politics involved, and I don't even use nano (vim guy myself), but I just ran this out of curiosity:

    zx2c4@thinkpad ~/nano $ git shortlog -sne --since '3 years ago'
      1298  Benno Schulenberg <[email protected]>
        64  Chris Allegretta <[email protected]>
         6  Jordi Mallach <[email protected]>
         3  Mike Frysinger <[email protected]>
         3  Mike Scalora <[email protected]>
         2  Rishabh Dave <[email protected]>

Seems like Benno is clearly the driving force behind the project.