Maintainer request

Working with Alex on a multilingual NGO project that needs this.
Alex I am willing to support you maintaining this.
Jon

Thanks for the offer, Alex :-)

So, the thing with References is that, as mentioned on the project page, it was targeted for deprecation in favor of Entity Reference.
I think Entity reference now includes all the features of References, and is clearly the future-proof way, so it's probably the one we should encourage new sites to start out with. It's also being considered for inclusion in D8 core, so D8 migration would probably be easier if your D7 site uses it rather than References (although the D8 inclusion thing is not fully settled yet)

This being said - I do understand the need for an official release, and apologize for failing to do so.
I discussed with Entity Reference maintainers, and they're fine with having References live alongside.

In short : References module is yours, you'll be granted commit and administration grants briefly.
Aside from polishing a release and fixing bugs, I'd suggest refraining from adding too much new features that would make eventual migration to Entity References difficult - or maybe synchronize with Entity Reference maintainers to try and keep feature parity ?
But well, you have the keys, you'll do what you see fit :-)

Confirming what yched said: References was something we wrote based on CCK 6, but which was never intended as a long-term solution, expecting some new refactored solution with a better architecture, which EntityReference and Relation, each in its own way, have brought to fruition.

But since experience shows new users keep accumulating, and you are willing to spend time on a new release, I've added you as a maintainer: you may now edit the project, commit, prepare releases and manage the issue queue. Hopefully heading towards EntityReference compatibility, but that's your call.

Merry Christmas!