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Patrick asked me to provide some more context, as they didn't want to speak from my side of things. I feel a detailed explanation is owed.

Patrick has been a great help since I had to step back and kept the project moving forward, incorporating a lot of what I envisioned.

I had been paying Patrick to continue my work (this isn't news, but you may not know it). It was a pretty easy decision: with my new job, my pay went up substantially, and I always had 'tithed' a proportion of my potential earnings to drive Composr forward so in some sense this wasn't any different financially for me.

The reason Patrick is now themselves having to step back is I decided I could not longer continue pouring my money in when the blocker to for further progress is me. Patrick has essentially gotten as much progress as they could do without me finishing certain stuff off. I didn't intend it to continue for long, I'd intended it to be more of a 6 month thing while it's been over 2 years of me funding development financially. Patrick had come to have to work on a number of things that I would consider feature creep, because things that needed to get done were just waiting on me, and I also was not able to spend time checking in on things properly.

But also now on the financial side of things:
I now have 2 kids, planning for 3. Inflation continues to bite, along with general costs of being the 'breadwinner'. I had concerns a few weeks ago about how the economy was going to go - which are now more than apparent over the last week. I have much bigger concerns longer-term (I think we are going to slide very backwards, other's may disagree but I feel strongly about it and don't want to go into politics here). I also realized I will need to move to a more expensive area at some point, as where I live has been going down-hill education-wise (there was just a referendum on school funding which cemented a very negative fate for the area which has already been doing poorly), and I need to get my kids into decent schools when they are older if they are to have the same quality of life I have had. So I really can't keep pouring in money when I need to be saving it up for my kids' future. I never cared about wealth, but now I have to.

What I do need to do is find time to contribute myself. Which has been extremely difficult because I've had endless unexpected challenges for years. The last few months I've been chronically sick after my daughter started preschool and started bringing multiple illnesses back per week. The last update I gave on the compo.sr forum kind of covered this ground - those without kids, don't tend to realize just how hard it is, because those with kids are too frantic to be talking about it online. When you have them, it hits you. But I have additional problems that I can't really go into online that make it so I am having to do all this on extra hard mode. I am also trying to stay healthy: I managed to get myself into great shape until we had kid number 2, then I barely was able to even leave the house for the past year (I mean that literally). So I also need to look after my health.

So all this means it has been very difficult to find time to contribute because I can't compromise on my family's situation or my health situation. I actually intended to wrap v11 up last year when I had some extended family leave. But I had a catastrophic water leak into my newly finished basement, and the insurance wouldn't properly cover it, and my reclamation company bailed on me, so I had to be doing a whole load of DIY and project management which used all the time I had, sadly.

I intend to book some vacation time off and blitz things. Being able to book that vacation time is also difficult, due to what my full time employment is requiring of me - which also I cannot openly talk about I'm afraid (what I can say is I now have a very intense 'silicon valley' job with a lot on my shoulders).

I totally understand why this post will be disheartening and some will not want to stick with it. People should make whatever decisions make sense for them. I also understand some will not just want me to 'wrap up v11', but rather continue to be around to give support and so on. Ultimately like Patrick said, this is a community project now, and both Patrick and I have big limits on us. I apologize for anyone feeling let down, and for being naive on how difficult it would get with kids, but it is what it is.

The world needs Composr CMS more than ever though, given how things are (just look at the debacle around Wordpress's management, and I have insider knowledge that things aren't going well elsewhere too). Many Open Source projects shut down silently, and Patrick and I have both been provided updates, even though things are slow, so take that as something positive.