Hello everyone, I will keep it short, otherwise people will start saying that I do have some spare time after all :)
First the obvious: I have been recently informed of the dependency problem in polyglossia following the recent evolution of fontspec. I do sincerely apologise to all users for all the trouble engendered by that missing RequiresPackage line! I also thank Philipp Stephani for having forked the github repository and uploaded a fixed version to CTAN. But let us forget that mishap. As I stated in a private email to Zdenĕk Wagner quoted on the xetex mailing list, for the past 12 months I have had absolutely no spare time at my disposal, and my email correspondence related to open-source projects was, alas, almost fully neglected. This means that even something as trivial as adding a line to polyglossia.dtx and uploading a new version to CTAN is really beyond my capacity. Therefore I am very happy to announce that I have finally found a new maintainer for polyglossia. Starting immediately, *Arthur Reutenauer* will actively take the commands. Arthur should be well-known to many readers of this list for his long-standing commitment in matters related to TeX vs Unicode and multilingual typesetting. In other words, he has the perfect profile for the job :) I will also forward to him all emails I have received relating to polyglossia during the past year. Obviously this new situation will be for the common benefit of all XeTeX users. I cannot speak for Arthur but it may not be too wild to imagine that a future version (or fork) of polyglossia will also support LuaLaTeX. Also, *Vafa Khaliqi* kindly offered to take over the maintainership of my other package ArabXeTeX, which I likewise officially confirm here. @Karl Berry: is there (legally speaking) anything else I should do to officialize the changes of "Current Maintainers"? The LPPL seems to imply that both Arthur and Vafa should actively confirm here their intentions of becoming the new respective maintainers, for the change of maintainerhip to become active. Best regards, François Charette
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