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Onokazu has been concentrating on the Japanese community recently, after he has stepped back as the lead core developer (this was announced).
Because of the fact that he is inactive as a xoops.org webmaster, we changed his status to prevent misuse (always a good policy to keep as few people as full webmasters on your site).
So kazu isn't gone, and I certainly don't want him to leave. He IS the founder and creator of XOOPS, for a very large part. He deserves the respect and status that comes with that (but is that Webmaster?). I'll give him a good spot
As for the XOOPS member who thinks the community is going downn the drain, I disagree. The Community is very much alive and kicking, with many new users and many people supporting others in these forums. The development is also going strong: many new modules are released every month. XOOPS 2.0.7 with a looong list of bugfixes is about to be released, and XOOPS 2.1/2.2 is in development. So I'd say things are moving rather well, actually.
Herko