The main problem with Calibre is it's quite hard to package and many distros seem to have given up.
This is an extra pain in the ass for users because if your favorite news site parser breaks, you have no choice but to upgrade Calibre itself instead of just updating a config file.
At a minimum the news-parsing stuff should have long ago been split out into a plugin. It has nothing to do with calibre's function as an ebook library tool.
It is hard to imagine that anyone would disagree with this. I certainly don't, nor did I say anything to the contrary.
> If you think there are genuine pain points you can address, fork it and make a better one no one is stopping you.
The only thing stopping me is common sense.
But why??? What in the world of Calibre demands such urgent updates? I use a variety of software (some quite complex) that do a great job with much less frequent updates. Why not Calibre?
To give an example, I once needed to reference a 2003 book that was out of print for a long-running project I was working on at the time, and the publisher who released it digitally had gone out of business, and the author's mailserver had gone dark. I checked the usual suspects for the PDF or hard copy of the book, but the only remaining copy of it I could find was a Calibre automated epub conversion from quite a few years in the past. A few years later, I once again looked for a better copy, only to find another Calibre epub conversion, but still no PDF in sight. This one, seemingly generated a few years later, was much higher in quality.
I was pleasantly surprised.