All good points, but don’t developers already create install packages for the different flavors of Linux - Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSuse, etc - in addition to packages for x86 Windows and Mac OS. It is my naive impression that one small team of M1 developers would have to scope out the challenges of building an M1 install package and write a new build.sh script to correctly compile M1 versions so that developers could write new code that would be transformed into various install flavors for everyone. M1 is a new, unknown, flavor that could be added to the existing processes.
Therein lies the rub, as many have repeatedly pointed out. There simply are not enough (i.e. almost no) M1 developers interested/committed/dedicated to darktable around, yet.
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I agree and think we here in this community are the wrong audience for this request. As this is FOSS developed by a community of volunteers, I volunteer (and don’t need anyones permission) to solicit help from Apple developers in other communities. Will report back if what I find. 
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Not wrong per se, just that a very limited number of people tick all those boxes simultaneously…
Awesome, good luck!
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Honestly, I don’t think you’re going to make it. But it would be fantastic.
Good luck
I wonder how much energy it takes to manufacture a computer, in comparison to the watt-hours consumed by its use.
If I remember correctly, the most efficient car one can buy is not the fancy new Tesla, but a used, beat-up junker that just won’t die. While it sure uses more petrol, the difference doesn’t make up for the up-front cost of unearthing all the raw materials, and turning them into a new car.
(This is not to criticize. I like new gear as much as anybody, and find joy in it running coolly and silently as well. But energy efficiency on its own does not make a reasonable argument for buying a new computer.)
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car emissions result in millions of deaths each year due to respiratory illness and lung cancer. The catalytic converter in any combustion engine car only starts working at 150C. When you start the car in the morning, it is pumping raw exhaust into the atmosphere. When you idle at a stop light it is working at low efficiency. And the converter is only operating at optimal efficiency the first 75,000 km. At 100,000 km it operates at 35% efficiency. You buy an old car in a “circular economy” logic to save on ultimate resources and still contribute to the disease and death of your neighbors, birds, animals, fish, insects, and plants.
All of us need to do more to cut emissions.
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Discussion is going off topic…
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I think this is a wrong observation. The dev team releases the source and then packagers pick up the code and start packaging for distributions. In some cases, dev and packager are the same person, but by accident, not on purpose. For windows, it took years to find a dev/packager/maintainer who takes the responsibility (which also implies long term support work and platform specific bug fixing). Before, there whave been some windows binaries around, but with loads of limitations.
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But you see that people both produce a lot of CO2 in their exhaust breath, and they also multiply exponentially. A few million deaths a year goes a very long way reducing the climate impact!
About 60 million people die of various causes each year and it makes no impact on GHG emissions since emissions continue to rise far above per-industrial levels.
This is far off-topic!
You are perfectly right emissions but discuss here? NO.
Btw, I didn’t have to sell two cars, have never owned one (62 y old) 
This is getting tired and feels like a eco pissing match.
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