It's fork time, said Jeff Hoogland. The Bodhi Linux developer got fed up with Enlightenment versions 18 onwards and said "Fuck it, I'm going to fork E17, and I'm going to call it Moksha Desktop."
On Bodhi's blog he explains: Enlightenment went from being the Open Source Duke Nukem Forever to having three big releases in the last 3 years. E18 was so destitute internally that Bodhi didn't even want to release that version.
E19 seemed better to him compared to E18, but although he spent time working with the Enlightenment developers and reporting bugs, not even they used E19 as a daily desktop. They barely released E19, they already got to work with E20. The frustration he had was such that he had to take that long break that kept him inactive.
When he returned, he released Bodhi 3.0.0 with E19 as the default desktop and also a legacy image with E17 for older machines. since it did not require the composer to be always active and thus run better.
But the important thing is that E17 had some functionality that E19 did not have, such as a functional inbox or the ability to mix theme components, which made you rethink whether it was a good idea to go to the new version. So he consulted with the community and many agreed with Jeff. Then he took the fork path.
Moksha will first integrate the desktop enhancements that he added to Bodhi, and then he will be bringing out the more useful features from E18 and E19. It is expected that by the time Bodhi 3.1.0 comes out (for August), he will release his images with Moksha, and that E19 will still be in the repositories for whoever wants.