[aur-general] TU Resignation
*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more. With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering. All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place. My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises. It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round. Sincerely, Brad p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories
On 25.10.2011 06:47, Brad Fanella wrote:
*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more.
With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering.
All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place.
My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises.
It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round.
Sincerely, Brad
p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories Brad, I'm sorry to hear that.
Hopefully you'll find some time again in the future. The computer stuff for packaging should be a problem we could easily sort out though as we have a fast buildbox. Wish you all the best. -- Sven-Hendrik
On 25 October 2011 12:47, Brad Fanella
p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories
Sorry to hear about this especially. Anyway, thanks for all your work. Take care and good luck! -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:47:20PM -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:
*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more.
With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering.
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It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round.
Sincerely, Brad
p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories
I just checked our SVN log: $ svn log | grep -c bfanella 1000 Nice number, and maybe another clue for Xyne :) Apart from that, I can only endorse what Stefan and Ray already said: Thanks for your great work and all the best for the future, Brad!
Am 25.10.2011 08:41, schrieb Lukas Fleischer:
I just checked our SVN log:
$ svn log | grep -c bfanella 1000
Nice number, and maybe another clue for Xyne :)
Oops, we are monitored!
Apart from that, I can only endorse what Stefan and Ray already said: Sorry, I did not say anything yet, the merits go to Sven-Hendrik. Thanks for your great work and all the best for the future, Brad!
I agree, thanks for all your efforts. Sad to see you go. Stefan
On 25 October 2011 06:47, Brad Fanella
*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more.
With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering.
All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place.
My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises.
It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round.
Sincerely, Brad
p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories
I'm sorry to hear that. I wish you luck in both personal life and your academic duties. Lukas
Le lundi 24 octobre 2011 23:47:20, Brad Fanella a écrit :
*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more.
With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering.
All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place.
My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises.
It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round.
Sincerely, Brad
p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories
Sad, really sad. ++
Hi, It's good not to deny the realities of a situation. Good luck further. Hope to see you as a TU in the future. -- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth
Brad,
You are an amazing young man. I figured you must be burning your candle at
both ends and the middle. Take care of school, slow down and enjoy the
finer things in life. You will go far and are always welcome here.
Eric W
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Alexander Rødseth
Hi,
It's good not to deny the realities of a situation. Good luck further. Hope to see you as a TU in the future.
-- Best regards, Alexander Rødseth
On 25.10.2011 06:47, Brad Fanella wrote:
It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round.
Sad to see you leave. Good luck with your life and if you ever want to come back, we'll be waiting :) Take care! -- Florian Pritz
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:50:43 +0200
Florian Pritz
On 25.10.2011 06:47, Brad Fanella wrote:
It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round.
Sad to see you leave. Good luck with your life and if you ever want to come back, we'll be waiting :)
Take care!
Sad to hear that, but take care of yourself. And as Florian said, if you come back some time, I guess we'll throw a distributed welcome-back party :-) -- Jabber: atsutane@freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4
Thank you all for your kind/encouraging words :) I guess I should have
mentioned this before: good luck to all of *you*! The job is certainly not
an easy one, and this has made me more appreciative of the work that is done
around here, and the open source community in general.
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Eric Waller
Brad,
You are an amazing young man. I figured you must be burning your candle at both ends and the middle. Take care of school, slow down and enjoy the finer things in life. You will go far and are always welcome here.
Eric W
I liked your message in particular, thanks for that. I've definitely been kept busy lately, so I can only imagine what college will bring me a little bit down the line. ~ Brad
2011/10/25 Brad Fanella
*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more.
With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering.
<snip> I know that sensation, it's happening to me in a sort of way, and its stressful.. I hope you the best of wishes and thanks for being part of our team. Don't feel bad, eventually everything it gonna be allright (like the song) and you can go back with us :). Cheers! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Developer / Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com
participants (12)
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Alexander Rødseth
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Brad Fanella
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Eric Waller
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Florian Pritz
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Laurent Carlier
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Lukas Fleischer
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Lukáš Jirkovský
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Ray Rashif
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Stefan Husmann
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Sven-Hendrik Haase
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Thorsten Töpper
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Ángel Velásquez