I hereby apologize to the community for my earlier announcement and request that you accept a retraction

Thanks for taking this courageous decision!

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So, concretely, what is the problem? Do you have no time handling the feature requests or is svn the problem?

I'll prepare a proper response to these questions in a separate message, but I wanted to head off any damage immediately.

As I made the suggestion, count me in. After you explain what you need, hopefully more will volunteer. Regards, Christophe