I noticed this message on the references module page yesterday.
"Note :
As the past couple months showed, the current maintainers are not up to the task. This module accepts new maintainers.
References will most probably be deprecated in the near future in favor of Entity Reference, which should probably be considered first on fresh D7 projects.
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As such we should probably migrate to this "entity reference" module in the near future
I noticed this message on the references module page yesterday.
"Note :
As such we should probably migrate to this "entity reference" module in the near future
http://drupal.org/project/entityreference