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@@ -7,16 +7,17 @@ _poetry2nix_ turns [Poetry](https://python-poetry.org/) projects into Nix deriva
 
 For more information, see [the original announcement post](https://www.tweag.io/blog/2020-08-12-poetry2nix/).
 
-## Maintenance status: ⚠️ Work in Progress ⚠️
+## Maintenance status: ⚠️ Unmaintained ⚠️
 
-[@Nebucatnetzer](https://github.com/Nebucatnetzer) took over maintenance for poetry2nix and [@elikoga](https://github.com/elikoga) is supporting him in doing so.
-We're currently working on getting the project up and running again.
-
-Poetry has a number of upcoming large changes, which poetry2nix is currently not supporting:
+The creator & long-term maintainer of poetry2nix ([@adisbladis](https://github.com/adisbladis)) is no longer using Poetry or Poetry2nix.
+This means that [poetry2nix is looking for maintainers](https://github.com/nix-community/poetry2nix/issues/1865).
 
+Poetry has a number of upcoming large changes, which poetry2nix is unlikely to gain support for:
 - [PEP-621 pyproject.toml metadata](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry-core/pull/708)
 - [Poetry 2.0](https://github.com/python-poetry/poetry/issues/9448)
 
+If you are not already using Poetry & Poetry2nix, do consider [`uv`](https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) & [`uv2nix`](https://github.com/adisbladis/uv2nix).
+
 ## Quickstart Non-flake
 
 You can turn your Python application into a Nix package with a few lines
@@ -608,10 +609,6 @@ poetry2nix.mkPoetryApplication {
 - [Package and deploy Python apps faster with Poetry and Nix](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbIHRHy7_JM)
 This is a short (11 minutes) video tutorial by [Steve Purcell](https://github.com/purcell/) from [Tweag](https://tweag.io) walking you through how to get started with a small web development project.
 
-## Alternative projects
-
-If poetry2nix isn't working for your use case check the NixOS wiki for alternative solutions: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/Python#Package_a_Python_application
-
 ## Contributing
 
 Contributions to this project are welcome in the form of GitHub PRs. Please consider the following before creating PRs: