My best greetings to all of you, the amanda-users and -hackers, I contact you today as I feel the need to do so for quite a while now.
-- As some of you might have noticed, my activities related to the Amanda-project are nearly non-existant for quite a while now. This has various reasons, and I won't bother you with details. I just want to "officially announce" that I am going into PASSIVE MODE now. I considered quitting my Amanda-Core-Team-Membership for a while, but when I look at the current core-team-member-list, I don't see any need to quit. -- Doing and living OpenSource is quite a lesson sometimes, individuals invest time and effort "to bring it on", but the return sometimes isn't very satisfying for the very individual. I have to revisit my priorities, as one of the "friends" (I use "" here, as I am shy to use that term in that context, although for me they are true friends) I "won" by doing Amanda-related work, told me: "That does seem to be the nature of life. Revisiting priorities on a frequent basis." And I do (thanks, X, you know ...) -- I am still believing in Amanda, as I use and promote it at various customers sites, but I am somehow tired of and frustrated by the way this project is developing over the last few years. I don't QUIT, as I still want to bring this piece of software forward, but things have changed in several ways and I have to accept the changes and adapt to the changes this project goes through. And I do. -- I am still open to any input/addition/correction/note related to the Amanda-docs, as I have put many many hours into the "renovation" of it. But I am also accepting the fact, that all this is not MINE and that I have to let it go as well. All the best to all of you, Stefan.