Hello,
I might consider adopting your project, pending a greater understanding of the scope.
I have 20+ years professional software development experience in C/C++ for many Unix platforms, but recently I have done many things in C#, flash, java, and _javascript_.
I hate to see ksh languish as it is my shell of choice (in fact, the only one I'm willing to use), and I'm particularly sensitive to a bug so catastrophic that a simple cd ../<somedir> would fail. This is indicative of an absence of attention to the project that borders on near abandonment. I haven't worked on official open source projects before, so I'm unfamiliar with the concept of an "upstream" issue. I would ask what exactly (or who exactly) can introduce upstream issues, and what is the hierarchy of upstream vs. downstream with regards to
making/adopting/publishing changes to the package. In other words, who has absolute control, and at whose mercy am I if I undertake this project? Who is the true owner, and where would I fit in?
Please contact me at wc -- at -- johndawson -- dot -- org (making the appropriate substitutions) to discuss the specifics outlined above.
John Dawson