There is no official maintainer since Michel van den Bergh gave it up, AFAIK. I never considered myself a maintainer of Polyglot, just a user who needed a version that supported the extensions of WB protocol, so that the new XBoard features would also work with UCI egines.
As far as XBoard/WinBoard is concerned, Polyglot is scheduled for retirement anyway. The latest beta package of WinBoard did not contain any Polyglot, but relied on UCI2WB instead.
The Debian maintainer uses my fork, because it is the most advanced version, and taking other versions would cause heavy loss of functionality of XBoard.
Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code
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Re: Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code
Wow, that's surprising. What are the advantages of UCI2WB over Polyglot?hgm wrote:The latest beta package of WinBoard did not contain any Polyglot, but relied on UCI2WB instead.
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Re: Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code
UCI2WB is variant agnostic, and supports all UCI dialects (USI, UCCI, UCI-Cyclone, Arena960). Polyglot is useless for anything other than ordinary Chess.