I already know that this post will generate a lot of flames. Next step of the project is the porting of the code to Gtk 3, why instead not switching away from gtk and go with Qt? And also leave autohell and switch to make?
You can think that I'm just kidding but consider those two blog post
http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2012/07/23/self-congratulating-echo-chamber/
http://blog.mardy.it/2012/05/from-g-to-q.html?m=1