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I've always hated when things I like finally disappear after a long and unuttered decline.  I loathe this growing and uneasy feeling that a project is going to stop. I feel it even before I know it. Any extra information I get adds up to the bad feeling. And finally, even intense denegation doesn't bring any warm feeling. Like old age, any depreciation is difficult to admit. It seems that even fighting back is doomed.

I guess I'll have to hate me for doing it too.

Since last autumn, I've been saying no more often than I wanted. No, I haven't read this interesting article that was published recently. No, I haven't given a though on refreshing nexen.net's graphics. No, I haven't any elephpants. No, I won't publish nexen stats about PHP usage. Yes, we'll be doing an upgrade of the site next month. Until I realized it was a full year that I was out of synch with my own projects. How sad is that?

I guess I could blame many reasons for this shortcoming. Moving back to Paris, getting older, having less time from my job, getting new responsabilities, lack of anticipationm the weather. It won't help anyone just spoiling the situation, so let's cut the crap : I must admit that the main responsible for the current situation is myself. I should have managed this projects another way, to keep them alive. My bus factor was too high.

I'm pretty ashamed for this sad end. Can I revive them? I must face it, no. Can I transfer them to some new leader of exception? I wish I could. Will I miss them? For sure, they have been formidable pet projects, sometimes for several years, getting an incredible feed back and enthusiasm from the PHP community, and even beyond. My mother in law has an elephpant.

Though, when I see them going to sleep for a last time tonight, I know they will take with them something that has always made them special.

Their panache.