Varun Acharya wrote:

Hi guys,

After a lot of thought, I've realised I've reached a point where I don't have the time and energy to contribute to Arch anymore. I'm at a transitional period from an intern to a practicing dentist(2 months to go), and a lot of work needs to be done, all of which requires a good amount of my time. I also will be travelling on business/education a lot this year, and for a good amount of time will not have access to any linux box to do Arch related work. And most importantly, I have to do a huge amount of studying this year to write a couple of board exams in the latter part of the year. I've tried balancing my schedule to get more time with arch in, but it doesn't seem to be working out too well, and I clearly need to focus on my profession. I don't want to see the quality of my packages suffer or my packages being out of date for long periods of time, so I decided that the best thing for me to do would be to step down at this point. The packages I've disowned and which are up for grabs are (luckily not too many):

foobillard libbtctl bladeenc dvdbackup handbrake miro showimg smplayer (-rc currently in testing) smplayer-themes d4x deluge firestarter nicotine transmisson wicd gspcav1

I do hope I can set things right in my life and rejoin you guys sometime in (hopefully not too distant) the future. I will of course continue to use Arch all the time :) and try to help out occasionally when x86_64 difflist goes out of control :). Good luck to Aaron and the rest of the dev team, and all the TU's. Its been awesome.

Regards, Varun "ganja_guru" Acharya

Best of luck, Varun - although I'm sure you don't need it. And don't be concerned about "setting things right" either - sounds to me like things are going very well for you. :) Keep in touch, and we'll keep a seat warm for you. T.

On Feb 8, 2008 6:00 AM, Varun Acharya wrote:

Hi guys,

After a lot of thought, I've realised I've reached a point where I don't have the time and energy to contribute to Arch anymore. I'm at a transitional period from an intern to a practicing dentist(2 months to go), and a lot of work needs to be done, all of which requires a good amount of my time. I also will be travelling on business/education a lot this year, and for a good amount of time will not have access to any linux box to do Arch related work. And most importantly, I have to do a huge amount of studying this year to write a couple of board exams in the latter part of the year. I've tried balancing my schedule to get more time with arch in, but it doesn't seem to be working out too well, and I clearly need to focus on my profession.

Wow, sad to see you go, but congrats on everything else. While it's not the same, I have a friend from school who is a erm... oral hygenist (?) or something... then dentist assistant. And I know their work was hard, I can only imagine what yours entails 8). Good luck to you in the future. I'm sure it'll go well.

On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Varun Acharya wrote:

Hi guys, <snip> I do hope I can set things right in my life and rejoin you guys sometime in (hopefully not too distant) the future. I will of course continue to use Arch all the time :) and try to help out occasionally when x86_64 difflist goes out of control :). Good luck to Aaron and the rest of the dev team, and all the TU's. Its been awesome.

Thanks a ton for joining us. We're a friendly group and you are always welcome to contribute back if you ever feel like doing so. Best of luck with your personal future! -Dan