[arch-dev-public] Resignation from Dev/TU position

Tobias Powalowski t.powa at gmx.de
Fri Feb 8 11:50:02 EST 2008


Am Freitag, 8. Februar 2008 schrieb Tom K:
> 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
>
Good luck in all things you plan and do :)
and you know, they all come back :D

greetings from germany
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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