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For the past several months I have been personally taking a break from appstore dev work, and have been actively pulling myself out of development discussions. I really like the 4TU team and the goals of the app store, but at this time I need to focus on other things, and also find a lot of the problems that the app store is currently "facing" (such as crowdsourced repo management, interacting with other devs for integrations, keeping our metadata up to date, dealing with other hb groups) are problems that I'm not even particularly good at solving or working through.

The app store client historically does not receive many updates itself, but I wanted to give a notice here about the current state of development on my end. I don't think this should have a major impact for its users, like homebrew browser on Wii it does not necessarily need active client development as much as it needs the homebrew repos to stay updated, and @pwsincd, @NoahAbc12345, and others in 4TU staff are on top of that.

There are still a number of things that are open client issues, such as: handling package dependencies, detecting previously installed apps, automated build repos, more metadata info, UI updates, and displaying screen shots in-app. If anyone wants to help enhance the client please feel free to make a PR or make an issue!

Any PRs/issues will still be looked at by someone on 4tu staff. Or come on down to the 4tu discord to discuss future client functionality. Despite there being no primary active developer of this software anymore, there are still git repo maintainers (such as pwsincd, compucat, crc32, and quarky) who know a good deal about both user experience and clean code, and would be able to merge in any enhancements. In other words, I'd much prefer to see the client continue to be improved on by other homebrew community members rather than just going stale without me around.