As may have been apparent for long-time followers of the MakeHuman community, Manuel Bastioni has been less active during the last year.
Manuel is the original author of MakeHuman and has been involved in MakeHuman for more than a decade. However, for personal and administrative reasons, he has now decided to leave the project officially too.
Since this is the way things have been moving for a while, the transition has been possible to make in good order although some details still remain.
Before releasing 1.1.0 all copyright to the source code and the bundled assets were explicitly transfered to Joel Palmius, Jonas Hauquier and Data Collection AB (DCAB) jointly. DCAB is now listed as official legal contact for MakeHuman.
Most in-house services (such as the bug tracker, the forum, the asset repo and so on) are hosted by DCAB.
Some details still remain, mainly the issue with the original domain name. For various reasons, I have no control over makehuman.org: I cannot redirect the domain, nor edit things on the existing page. This is a problem, but it will have to worked around. In the short term, I intend to steer traffic towards makehumancommunity.org instead, since I have full access to that.
Personally, I remain dedicated to keep the MakeHuman project and community going. To ensure the long-term viability of MH I have slowly started to recruit more team members for various parts of the project and the community. Some of these you will have seen with green names on the forums. Others mainly do things behind the scenes without making much fuzz.
As this statement is mainly a means to publish facts that are already in effect, no big changes are to be expected in the near future. In my view things are progressing in a mostly pleasant manner as they are, and there is no reasons to start rocking the boat.
This said, we will need to recruit artists to keep up work with the base mesh and bundled targets.
Manuel has seen this post before it was published and approved its contents.