I made this some time ago:

I have decided that I will no longer be leading the Electrum project.

Electrum has been a great experience, but things have been going very fast lately, and I do not have enough time to keep up with all the current developments.
My site (ecdsa.org/electrum) will redirect to electrum-desktop.com, which should be considered as the official website.

Thanks to genjix, we now have an active community of developers, so I am confident that this project will live its own life, and that my work will not die.
I want to thank all the developers and users who supported the project.
I wish you the best for the future.

the delay has expired, and nobody proposed an extension that matches the requirements (although a chrome extension has been developed).
I will therefore return your plegde of 5 btc (see PM).

can you clarify this point?

relax... this is not a fork, at least not for now :-)
I have no problem with people re-using and modifying my code; it is in fact the best thing that can happen to it.

Amir has been working hard to create a community around the project, and I see this as a positive thing.
I also told him that I was looking for someone else to take over the project, because I do not have enough time for it myself.

However, I did not mean to transfer the project to him in particular, and I did not expect this kind of 'take over' without concertation...
I do not know if Amir is the best person for managing that project, mostly because I do not think that a project that involves people's money can be run as an anarchy.

But well, he seems to be highly motivated and dedicated, and he's willing to spend more time than me on it at the moment. So, let it be that way. Time will tell if he succeeds.

wtf, I come back from vacation to see that Electrum has been hijacked? :-)

loss of entropy aside, I believe that gramatically correct sentences are easier to learn, but they are also easier to forget.
if you make the effort to memorize a non-structured list you are more likely to remember it.

very nice.

ok, I'll update the link

can you explain why you could not build 0.61?

Electrum 0.61 packages with light gui are now available on ecdsa.org

I uploaded 0.61 packages again.
It should work now.

0.61 packages are now available (see previous announcement)

edit: sorry, the 0.61 package still has problems. the site links again to version 0.60

yes, I agree, it is the most sensible thing to do.  we don't want to manage labels in the lite gui

please clarify. an address can be unused and have a label, or it can be used and have no label.

I agree with this.
It makes sense to start the lite gui when Electrum is launched by a web browser, in order not to interfere with browsing.
However, when a user starts Electrum from the command line, I think it is more sensible to give direct access to the the full gui

Scam victims may indeed lose faith in the credibility of Bitcoin. So what? Why should we bother about them losing faith?
If people are stupid enough to invest in what looks like a Ponzi scheme, it will be difficult to teach them the difference between the currency itself and the various scams they can fall for.

Let these people lose faith; a bit of natural selection will not hurt the community.

Why would Bitcoin take another hit?
A few people get scammed. End of story. No big deal for Bitcoin.

indeed, the resource files (png, css) should be included in the qrc file

I confirm that ecdsa.org has been down for a few hours yesterday.
(it was rebooted by my ISP, and there was an error in the reboot cron script)

we're still working on the packages.
you can get it from git if you want to try it now