Coin, Since this summer, after a personal not so good period, i realized my life needed some reorganization. This is not a funny job and i'm delaying things too much. Fact is my interrests have evolved and i chose to give more time to real life than before and check the projects i'm already involded into. The GNOME Project is one that i chose to resign from because my pleasure in this job has fallen quite down, for reasons i have not completely analysed. Surely my faith in the GNOME project itself has diminished. And i lack knowledge to hack deeper into upstream parts, which is often part of the motivation for being maintainer, but realized i've no real pleasure learning in this area. I did a lot of work in a not so distant past, and i think i took care not so badly of the packages seb128 gave me when Marrilat dropped all his GNOME packages. Nevertheless, i know panel and applets need a lot more time and knowledge to be really well maintained, more than i can give and have currently. Even with the help the Team gave me, i feel this is not sufficient and fresh blood is necessary. I would like to pass on my packages to someone really motivated, and willing to work into the Team of course (no way we get back to Marillat-alike maintainership). I hope you would understand my feelings, and be sure this was not a pleasant decision. I'll stay around until my packages have a new maintainer, and try to help as much as possible for the transition. Even if my relationships with the members of the Team are sometimes mixed feelings, i would like to thank you all ; i learned a lot in this project, and especially with seb128, my dedicated sponsor and advocate when i was NM. I'll still be in touch with some of us in other projects, and i hope i could meet again the other ones pleasantly in the future. Regards. -- Marc Dequènes (Duck)
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