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 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!

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. ++

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 wrote:

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

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 wrote:

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