Re: Departure -- hopefully temporary
If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the
bug still outstanding?
On Sun, 30 Jun 1996, Bill Mitchell wrote:
>
> I'm afraid that I must drop off the debian project for now.
> I'm still on track to drop off the net around mid July, due
> to relocation to the Philippines, and I need to spend a larger
> portion of my time getting ready for the move. I'm not sure
> where in the Philippines I'll end up, or whether a net connection
> will be workable from wherever that may be. Hopefully, I'll
> be rejoining the project in a couple of months. I'm unsubscribing
> from the lists as of today, but I'll still be reachable by email
> for the next couple of weeks.
>
> I've been involved in the debian project since day one, and it's
> been a good experience. We've produced a top-notch distribution,
> but it's still got some rough edges. I think some of those rough
> edges would have been smoother if we'd made a few design decisions
> differently. In those areas where the rough edges really matter,
> the design decisions which they grow out of will get re-thought to
> smooth out the roughness. That's already happened in a couple of
> areas.
>
> Most of my packages have found homes. I have three packages left,
> one of which is an important one. I'm afraid that they're now
> orphans. The following is disposition information on my former
> packages:
>
> bc-1.03 gone to Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk>
> cvs-1.8.1 gone to eichin@kitten.gen.ma.us
> diff-2.7 gone to Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net>
> ed-0.2 gone to Austin Donnelly <and1000@cam.ac.uk>
> file-3.19 gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>
> indent-1.9.1 gone to Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
> jgraph-83 ORPHAN
> patch-2.1 gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>
> sharutils-4.2 gone to branderh@debian.IAEhv.nl
> symlinks-1.0 gone to chuck@richnet.net
> # need ncurses for these
> ae-962 ORPHAN (important)
> beav-140 ORPHAN
> less-290 gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <torin@daft.com>
> git-4.3.9 gone to Klee Dienes <klee@sedona.com>
> ee-126.1.89 gone to Steve Greenland <stevegr@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
> elvis-2.0 gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>
> # need elf X11
> xasteroids-5.0 gone to Klee Dienes <klee@sedona.com>
> # not elf-ized yet
> kermit-190 gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <sgk@sgk.tiac.net>
>
> mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)
>
>
>
>
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