Future of panel applets

What is the future of panel applets? A lot of them (all?) failed to build in the ongoing mass rebuild, so I wonder * if they will be completely dropped or still work with gnome-panel in fallback mode? * if we should continue maintaining then and if not, if there are any plans to make gnome-panel obsolete the orphaned applets? I know that GNOME 3 is a big step ahead, but frankly speaking I'm a little worried about the massive impact on other packages / desktops / maintainers on the one hand and the lack of communication on the other. Can you please provide the maintainers more info in order to reduce the fallout we currently see in rawhide? Regards, Christoph