anoek, the “project maintainer”, already explained that the code base fundamentally assumes a two player game, and that significant plumbing changes are needed to support this particular new feature.
A decisive word regarding what?
We appear to be having useful discussions regarding features and the importance of them, which is good.
We can also read (second hand) that anoek has said that he is already working on it.
To summarise things that are clear:
- It is a moderate amount of work to implement Rengo
- Folk are looking at interim solutions (eg rengo coordinator/relay bot)
(if anyone in addition to shinuito wants to get involved, let me know) - anoek is working on it, but has not offered a timeline, because he has other priorites as well (and he never gives timelines for new features anyhow)
I have also speculated that:
- it would take a substantial amount of money to change anoek’s priority, because it is a substantial task