Dear list,

It has taken some time before I was able to admit it to myself, but 
due to some extensive changes in my academic career I no longer have 
time to actively and responsibly maintain the modules I created. To 
be honest, I even didn't get to thoroughly study the changes in 
Drupal 5 from a developer's perspective, so I don't see myself 
upgrade these modules any time soon.

I prioritized my Drupal and other activities, and I have decided that 
in the foreseeable future I will only continue to contribute to the 
Drupal project as the treasurer of the Drupal Association, and no 
longer as a module developer, since I believe that the Association is 
currently more important to support Drupal and help the project grow.

Therefore, the following modules need new maintainers:

Flash Gallery http://drupal.org/project/flash_gallery
Graphstat http://drupal.org/node/33946
Inactive User http://drupal.org/node/10435
Simplenews http://drupal.org/project/simplenews

As for Simplenews (critical for drupal.org), RobRoy (http://
drupal.org/user/22975) already has cvs access, and released a working 
5.x version of the module. Furthermore, Sutharsan (http://drupal.org/
user/73854) provided a lot of great patches for simplenews lately. 
I'll forward this e-mail to him in case he doesn't read this list.

I will unsubscribe from most public Drupal mailing lists soon, you 
can contact me in private through http://drupal.org/user/17892/ for 
cvs access and/or module ownership. Drupal.org site administrators 
are also free to perform these actions. I'd only like my name to be 
mentioned as the original author on the project page and README.txt 
of Flash Gallery, Graphstat and Simplenews.

cheers,
Dries Knapen