McGovern: Handing over

Me too. In the last three years, it seems to me that the gnome project has become less insular. The dogmatic approach and cold welcome for external and community contributions has changed a lot. Ubuntu's move was a vote of confidence, and Fedora is starting to see itself as a gnome flagship which should have appeal to more mainstream users; it's really hard to imagine that if Gnome didn't enable it. These are I think cultural changes before they are technical changes, and without knowing for sure, Neil McGovern must have something to do with it.