Thanks for your report. I will look at whether festival can get a new maintainer among Education repository maintainers. Removal of Festival would be a huge loss because much of software (not only in the main repo) require it. 

We would have to build festival separately in Education and KDE3 repo then. This would drain the OBS build pover. I think this is not much hurry because festival currently does not experience build problems in Factory.

(In reply to comment #1)
> We would have to build festival separately in Education and KDE3 repo then.
> This would drain the OBS build pover. I think this is not much hurry because
> festival currently does not experience build problems in Factory.

I beg to differ. If you want to keep festival in Factory for now, just become the maintainer and check with Education repo maintainers afterwards. Otherwise, we'll just let it slip and it will be in 12.3 with no maintainer.

I submitted a request to change the maintainer for festival. Depending on the outcome of this request I will act further.

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/144657

(In reply to comment #3)
> I submitted a request to change the maintainer for festival. Depending on the
> outcome of this request I will act further.
> 
> https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/144657

FWIW, this got declined.

I disabled the festival and created submit request.

https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/148937

And found out the festival is now in kde:kde3, so closing this as fixed as it works on factory.