Ah ok. So it's finally been made public, so I can talk about this finally. Ben Skeggs resigned from Red Hat recently, and won't be working on the nouveau kernel display driver anymore. I mention this because, well
I'm going to be the one taking over the display side of that work on the kernel :)
While I'm anxious, I'm also incredibly excited. I've wanted to have a long term project like this to focus on exclusively for a while now, and for the first time all of the stars have lined up and I was actually able to say yes to this.
I'm sure a lot of folks are worried about the future of nouveau. Rest assured, we have no plans on abandoning it. If anything, it's future is incredibly bright right now. The brightest its been in ages.