Neary says: "I'm finally, and definitively, leaving the project. [...] The failure of the project to control the limits of acceptable behaviour of its participants has been a long-standing problem, and needs resolution. But I'm not the person who will get that resolution." This is an old and known problem with Gimp. Will it be better or worse now?
http://blogs.gnome.org/view/bolsh/2006/09/29/0