RichMemo needs to go to GitHub.
ability to fork and self-patch will make it better!
Sorry but GitHub does not solve anything really. It is way overrated. A project there also must have a maintainer to pull the pull requests, just like other projects must have maintainers to apply patches.
If there is no maintainer, there will be forks. It is unfortunate if the requested changes were just bug fixes and nobody had a fancy idea of diverting a project's developement to a new direction.
Right solution is to give the maintenance of RichMemo to somebody with enough time and enthusiasm. Here we have seen already daz and dbannon as potential candidates.
This is no criticism for skalogryz's work obviously.
I feel the development of libraries and components for FPC/Lazarus is too much concentrated for the same people. Getting more people involved as (sub-)maintainers would bring new life to them.
Don Alfredo and "fpcup" project is one good example. There was discussion if FPC developers would take over the project after its original author died. It was a doomed idea, it would be a very low priority for FPC devels.
I remember in this forum persuading a contributor Don Alfredo to take over its maintenance. First he gave some weird political mumbo-jambo and nobody understood is it YES or NO. Then he took the maintenance anyway and has been very enthusiastic and productive maintainer since then.
Now I suggest either daz and dbannon take over the maintenance of RichMemo. I don't even know who is its original author. Not skalogryz I guess (?).
The maintenance can mean as little as testing patches from other people and applying then, or it can mean developing the component forward furiously.
Remember, authors of components in Lazarus-CCR have mostly fleed and disappeared. Nobody has made efforts to get maintainers to replace them. Now this is such an effort.