Hey guys. I've been giving it some thought lately, and I think I need to sit back and assess my priorities in life. My day-job has been taking up a lot of my time lately, and events in my personal life have also increased of late. That leaves little "free time" and I'm finding more and more lately that whenever I get this time free I don't feel like sitting down and spending more time working on Arch after working 9 to 5 in front of a PC. As a result, I'm getting very little done for Arch on a day-to-day basis, and that doesn't feel good. The time I do spend on Arch feels more like work, like an obligation than it ever used to feel. Of the packages I maintain, I actually care about maybe 3. I'm having trouble finding motivation. In any case, it really leaves me with two options: 1) drop some personal-life stuff to prioritize Arch and attempt to rekindle the spark I had when I first started, or 2) gracefully bow out of Arch "development" I have chosen the latter. Believe it or not, it has been a difficult decision. I love Arch, and the people behind it. The distro rocks, and all you guys rock as well. I think I'll miss you all. I really want to see Arch succeed, and the combination of these things has kept me doing stuff for quite a while after it stopped being enjoyable, however now with the large influx of new packagers we're taking on, I think it's the right time for me to step back and let the new guys, each with their own fresh spark for Arch, to take the reins, so to speak. I toyed with the idea of taking a long sabbatical, orphaning my pkgs and coming back in 6 months or a year or something, but I figured it'd be silly to keep me around in the web interface and on the dev page and all that jazz when I'm not even sure whether I plan to return. If I ever feel the desire to take this on again, I'll reapply like a normal person. ;) I'll still be around - love the community, spend more time on the forums while at work than I should, enjoy helping others out, etc... If anybody needs any quick help with anything, I'd be glad to take a look. The last two years have been a blast. Keep the distro going strong guys; it's the best out there. -- Travis