Nevertheless loosing the main developer (again) will be a big hit to it.
This happens all the time in many open source apps and projects. For instance, Ian Murdock founded Debian in 1993, and as far as I know, contributes little (if any) code to the current project. There have been 12 project leaders since Ian, yet Debian is still one of the most successful open source projects and has a thriving community today.
I have believed in YACoin since day one, and, like many of you, am personally highly invested in helping it to succeed.
I will be looking for community involvement, input, and absolutely... pull requests to the github repo.
I look forward to working with all of you in the future.