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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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