Ever the hard worker F-Spot maintainer Ruben Vermeersch announced on IRC that he intends to continue the 0.8 branch of F-Spot as an LTS series. Furthermore as of yet unannounced major changes are coming in the 0.9 series.
From #F-Spot (irc.gimp.net)
rubenv: 0.8 will be an LTS series I sort of decided on my own that we’re going to fully change f-spot in the next series.