[aur-general] Resignation from Dev/TU position
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 I don't want to see the quality of my packages suffer or my packages being out of date for long periods of time, so I decided that the best thing for me to do would be to step down at this point.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
I'm sure you'll be back! Hope your exams go well and good luck in becoming a dentist. If I've any tooth problems, I know whom to email :) Sometimes I think that Arch is more than just a distribution. It's kind of a way of life. Even if years down the line, Linux goes poof (hardly likely), the essence of Arch will always remain with me. K.I.S.S. is beautiful. That's why I don't think anyone can ever (philosophically speaking) ever leave Arch, since it becomes a part of themselves. Thank you, Abhishek Dasgupta
Thank you for great work, and good luck! I hope you`ll come back. Regards, Mateusz.
On Feb 8, 2008 6:00 AM, Varun Acharya <ganja.guru.x64@gmail.com> 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.
participants (5)
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Aaron Griffin
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Abhishek Dasgupta
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Mateusz Herych
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Varun Acharya
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Vinay Shastry