On Friday 05 September 2014 10:38:18 Frank Reininghaus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> being in charge of this core KDE application has been an honor and a
> pleasure. Actually, it went a lot better than I had expected in 2012
> after I had taken over from Peter: Dolphin has improved in many ways,
> and I am very grateful to everyone who helped to make this possible.
> 
> I still enjoy working on KDE in general and Dolphin in particular, but
> I cannot continue to spend as much time on it as I did on average
> during the past two years. Therefore, I have decided to step down.
> 
> I have asked Emmanuel if he is willing to take over. He has made many
> valuable contributions to the code base, and he is also very active in
> discussions with other contributors at Review Board and with users at
> bugs.kde.org. Therefore, I am sure that he will be a good maintainer,
> and I'm very glad that he accepted.
> 
> I am not saying "good bye" though, because I am planning to continue
> contributing to KDE in the future.
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank
Thanks for the amazing work as maintainer!