Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
2008/1/30, Callan Barrett wizzomafizzo@gmail.com:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
This is so unexpected for me, sad to hear that. Thank you for your work, I hope to see more of your patches for AUR code, or maybe some other projects. ;-)
P.S.: I think I'll grab your rawstudio package.
On Thu 2008-01-31 02:25 , Callan Barrett wrote:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
Welcome aboard!
2008/1/30, Callan Barrett wizzomafizzo@gmail.com:
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore.
Thanks for the work done in those 12 months. Sorry to see you go, Callan. Good luck.
2008/1/30, Giovanni Scafora linuxmania@gmail.com:
Thanks for the work done in those 12 months. Sorry to see you go, Callan. Good luck.
P.S.: I think I'll grab your poedit package.
Can I move your nopaste, shackshag and unclutter packages in unsupported? My italian friend (BaSh) wants to maintain them. Let's me know ASAP. Thanks.
On Jan 30, 2008 10:30 PM, Giovanni Scafora linuxmania@gmail.com wrote:
Can I move your nopaste, shackshag and unclutter packages in unsupported? My italian friend (BaSh) wants to maintain them. Let's me know ASAP. Thanks.
Please wait a few days before moving things to unsupported. Maybe a TU wants to keep it in the community repo.
2008/1/30, Ronald van Haren pressh@gmail.com:
Please wait a few days before moving things to unsupported. Maybe a TU wants to keep it in the community repo.
Yeah, I know. I wait a few days before moving things to unsupported. If nobody wants to keep them in the community repo, I will move those packages in unsupported.
Ronald van Haren wrote:
On Jan 30, 2008 10:30 PM, Giovanni Scafora linuxmania@gmail.com wrote:
Can I move your nopaste, shackshag and unclutter packages in unsupported? My italian friend (BaSh) wants to maintain them. Let's me know ASAP. Thanks.
Please wait a few days before moving things to unsupported. Maybe a TU wants to keep it in the community repo.
I've adopted shackshag and nopaste.
Bjørn
I had to rub my eyes twice when I read your email, Callan :) Good luck in whatever you do.
Thanks, Abhishek Dasgupta
P.S. I've adopted bsd-games and zsi
On Jan 31, 2008 4:31 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta abhidg@gmail.com wrote:
I had to rub my eyes twice when I read your email, Callan :) Good luck in whatever you do.
Thanks, Abhishek Dasgupta
P.S. I've adopted bsd-games and zsi
Good luck to you Callan. Perhaps you can attach the xfce-svn script to this thread so that one of us can use it sometime in the future.
Varun
On Jan 30, 2008 11:25 AM, Callan Barrett wizzomafizzo@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
Oh my god. Wizzo, no!!!
I have to say this is stunning to me. For a while there you seemed like you were the one with the drive to actually get things done, and make things better. But apparently you have other things to do. It happens to the best of us.
RIP Wizzo. He was an hero, and doesn't afraid of anything.
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:25:59 +0900 "Callan Barrett" wizzomafizzo@gmail.com wrote:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
-- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett
Can I don't accept your resignations?
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Callan Barrett wrote:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
Thanks for your work on the community repo.
I'll grab comix and unace if noone else is interested.
Eric
Callan Barrett wrote:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
Well, I too am joining the list of the shocked. What if we offer a pay rise, lets say 20%! :)
Allan
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:25:59AM +0900, Callan Barrett wrote:
Hey there,
I was thinking about this for a while and finally decided to write the email. I've been doing this thing for about 12 months now and to be honest it's gotten really boring lately being a TU, I now think packaging is the most tedious and annoying process ever and I don't think I can be bothered doing this anymore. Anyway, I maintain 75 packages in community, most of which being the xfce-svn ones, but they're all pretty easy to maintain.
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now, if anyone is interested there is a script I have to automate the whole process of updating it. The rest of the packages are pretty minor, maybe even don't need to be in community, and it wouldn't be hard to just pick a few out.
So there we go, I'll probably stay involved with Arch but definitely not the packaging side of it. Good luck to the rest of the TUs.
-- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett
Even though you talked about resigning I was still a bit shocked that you actually did it. It's sad to see you leave.
If no one else wants to I'll take the offlineimap package.
Good luck for your future endeavours wizzy!
Psst... I saw it coming as soon as you fell for the iMac ;)
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 02:25 +0900, Callan Barrett wrote:
I don't know exactly what should happen to the xfce-svn packages, although it would be great if another TU maintains them it is a lot of packages and it might be best they go into unsupported for now
I would build for x86_64 if anyone is doing general maintenance for them.
Good luck wizzo :)
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