Hi all,

I have tried to maintain GtkTreeView ever since I took over from Jonathan 
Blandford many years ago and in the more recent years the OS X backend which I 
took over from Richard Hult. During the last 1,5 years, I have been struggling 
to keep up with the development pace of GTK+. As many have likely noticed, I 
barely had time to do patch review let alone do any code writing myself. More 
than a 100% attention is currently going to my day job.

Also, I struggle to identify with the community these days -- that is, I do not 
agree how GTK+ is being developed. Discussions appear to mainly happen on IRC, 
which I can impossibly follow, contrary to on the mailing list; I have seen 
things being refactored without seriously considering the impact on 
compatibility or other platforms; and after working an entire Summer on the 
sort and filter model, a patch was committed there without even quickly 
checking for review.

So, in Open Source, either you step up and do something about it, or you back 
out. I have no spare cycles to step up, so I made the choice to back out. I 
will discontinue maintenance and patch review and move to other things. There 
are a few small OS X issues I still plan to fix, but that will be all.


I will not completely disappear and might still do an occasional contribution. 
I hope to find time for other things, also related to GTK+ and GNOME, like my 
GObject Clang plugin which I want to clean up and upload somewhere. Or some 
GIMP hacking. Also, I will be around in the fine LibreOffice community.


Best regards,

-kris.

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