Hello all, Given the current discussion, I believe it is appropriate for me to provide a status update as far as my role within the Arch community is concerned. As a father of three (soon four!) I don't have much time at my disposal, and would like to concentrate the little I have on other open-source projects I am involved in. But I am well-aware that stepping down right now would leave you with yet another bunch of orphan packages, including the texlive-* ones, which is really not what you guys need at this moment. I am thus proposing this: I'll stay on board and will continue maintaining my stuff until we have found someone who is ready to take up maintainance of the texlive packages. I have written a collection of helper scripts for this purpose which are publically available on our projects page. Of course I'd also be available for help. So that should be feasible by anyone who uses TeX Live already, knows its internals moderately well (configuration files and tools, web2c, kpathsea, etc), and is not afraid of complex build processes. I hope this can be achieved within the next, say, six months, but hopefully sooner, since our baby is expected early April and I won't have much time in the three months thereafter. Ideally that person should be one of you, which would make things very easy, but I don't think this is realistic, given the workload you already have. There is also the possibility of moving the texlive pkgs back to community if a TU is interested, but I'd really prefer they stay in extra. In other words, you can still count on me, but not for too long ;) In the meanwhile, if anyone is interested in a particular package I maintain, just ask and I'll orphan it. Regards, François