Problem/Motivation
The multilingual initiative succeeded in moving Drupal 8 forward tremendously since Dries announced it on May 9th 2011. More than 1600 contributors worked on making this possible for over four years, here is a list:
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It is clear that we improved so much that people now have other areas where things to do are more pressing. Therefore in the recent months, the meetings sort of died off. So I removed them from the meeting calendar just now and tweeted this thank you:
As a consequence @xjm suggested we also remove it from MAINTAINERS.txt.
Proposed resolution
Remove from MAINTAINERS.txt as it is not active anymore.
Remaining tasks
Do it.
User interface changes
None.
API changes
None.
Data model changes
None.