Merge pull request #380 from JuliaMath/mkitti-README-update

Remove obsolete badges and update README

Author: mkitti

README.md

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 # Interpolations
 
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/JuliaMath/Interpolations.jl.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/JuliaMath/Interpolations.jl)
-[![PkgEval Status](http://pkg.julialang.org/badges/Interpolations_0.4.svg)](http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=Interpolations)
-[![Interpolations](http://pkg.julialang.org/badges/Interpolations_0.5.svg)](http://pkg.julialang.org/?pkg=Interpolations)
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-Documentation:
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-latest-blue.svg)](http://juliamath.github.io/Interpolations.jl/latest)
 
+**NEWS** This package is currently under new maintainership. Please be patient while the new maintainer learns the new package. If you would like to volunteer, please mention this in an issue.
 
 **NEWS** v0.9 was a breaking release. See the [news](NEWS.md) for details on how to update.
 
-**NEWS** This package is officially looking for a maintainer.
-The original authors are only fixing bugs that affect them personally.
-However, to facilitate transition to a long-term maintainer,
-for a period of time they will make a concerted attempt to review pull requests.
-Step forward soon to avoid the risk of not being able to take advantage of such offers of support.
-
 This package implements a variety of interpolation schemes for the
 Julia language.  It has the goals of ease-of-use, broad algorithmic
 support, and exceptional performance.
 
 Currently this package's support is best
 for [B-splines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-spline) and also
 supports irregular grids.  However, the API has been designed with
-intent to support more options. Pull-requests are more than welcome!
+intent to support more options. Initial support for Lanczos
+interpolation was recently added. Pull-requests are more than welcome!
 It should be noted that the API may continue to evolve over time.
 
 Other interpolation packages for Julia include: