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[Frederik Elwert <frederik.elwert@xxxxxx>]

Hello everybody,

I really thought this project was a good idea (and generally, I still
think). This was not supposed to be yet another big words and no results
project. But now I see no gain in pushing this project further.

To quickly sum up the main reasons for my decision:

      * Folks with Python seems to be a dead end, at least for now. I
        contacted folks devs, gee devs, and PyGI devs. But for the time
        being, there seems no way of getting these three to play nicely
        with each other.
      * Learning vala is not an option for me at the moment, and no one
        with vala knowledge stepped up to take over this task.
      * Canonical seems to have started implementing a contacts lens on
        their own. At least I saw a screenshot related to the just
        announced Ubuntu for Android:
        http://cdn.omgubuntu.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/noname-3.jpg

The Canonical solution seems to be very close to our design ideas, and
there is no point in duplicating efforts. I just hope that it will land
in mainsteam Ubuntu soon. My main interest was to have a contact search
solution by the time when Precise will replace Lucid on my work
computer, since I will loose my deskbar based contact search then. I am
unsure if the Canonical lens will make it into Precise, but this single
point for me does not justify developing a redundant solution.

However, I wanted to thank you for joining the team and being interested
in the project.

Cheers
Frederik