It seems to apply not only to django-nonrel, but also to their other (equally awesome) projects like django-mediagenerator, django-filetransfers and django-autoload.
These guys contributed so much to the django ecosystem, it's very sad to see their projects getting abandoned.
Edit - Full list of projects here: http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects
Edit2 - Alt. discussion here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3274662