It may be worth doing both. Getting xnedit into distros right now as a 6.0 seems like a good idea to me while we work on nedit-ng at either 7.0; or rename nedit to nedit-classic and give nedit-ng the full name.
I'm happy to. However, there are an unknown number of forks out there, and they should contact me directly.
Merge in latest upstream nedit-ng
Keep user interface alive during long operations
Restored resize increments, for window managers that support it.
ng to 6.0, continued
Removing everything for fresh start
Imported nedit-ng from remote https://github.com/eteran/nedit-ng.git