Sorry for the hyperbole, seems to be popular these day, haha . See mail to committers mailing list below:
Hi, after a 7 months away I’m happy to announce I’ll be working for
the Blender-Foundation again!
It’s work from home, on a per-project basis.
I’ll be focusing on the Blender-101 and work-flow improvements starting March.
Also some time on code-review and fixing bugs in UI/workflow related
areas so as not to put too much pressure on existing maintainers.
Noticed new developers getting involved and 2.8x progress is great to see
Regards,
Campbell
Lets hope for his presence back on the BA forums as well. They could use a sprinkle of his calm and reason.
Welcome back, Campbell - we missed you!
Edit: I just now saw this was posted in the 2.8 dev thread as well. Nevermind, I think it needs some special attention
I also welcome him back to Blender work (the BF can always use more hands on Blender 2.8).
So it does appear like he was just taking a break (I hope that has refreshed his mind and has inspired him to try some new approaches to issues that he never thought about before).