Russ... heartfelt words. Well said. Now, if I can intrude on your time a bit more... Would you be willing to write a brief retrospective on your history w AFS, for the next newsletter, prolly coming out in October?
Thanks and thanks for all your contributions! Sent from my ASUS Pad Russ Allbery <r...@stanford.edu> wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Due primarily to lack of time, I'm resigning as an OpenAFS Elder and >Gatekeeper. As you probably all have noticed, I've not done much >substantial in either role for some time, largely because I have too many >other draws on my time. My job with Stanford is primarily focused on >authentication and authorization services these days, not file systems, >and other projects such as Debian are consuming all of my available >volunteer time. > >One of the lessons I learned from volunteer work in Usenet governance is >that it's always tempting to stay in a position even if one doesn't have >time to devote to it, but it's never a good idea. It creates guilt and >stress in the person who stays in that position without having time for >it, and it creates uncertainty and stagnation in a community that needs to >move forward with the time and attention of the people who do have >resources. It's much better to make a clean break once one realizes that >one's personal time and resources are no longer up to the position. > >I don't think this will result in very much day-to-day change for anyone >else working on the project. Stanford is happy to continue hosting the >Gerrit, Git repository, and Jabber server for the project under the >current arrangement for as long as the community would like us to, and I >plan to continue to maintain the Debian packages of OpenAFS, although I >may be a bit slower on updates than I have in the past. I do, however, >plan to stop following every Gerrit change and every OpenAFS bug, so >please explicitly copy me or list me as a reviewer if there's something >that you need me to see. > >Thank you to everyone who is or has been part of the OpenAFS community for >all your hard work on OpenAFS over the years, and thanks in particular to >Jeff and Derrick, who have been doing nearly all of the Gatekeeper work >for as long as I've been involved in the project, and to whom I was only >able to offer occasional assistance. It's been a pleasure to work with >all of you, and I'm looking forward to continuing working with you in the >capacity of a member of the AFS community. > >-- >Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> >_______________________________________________ >OpenAFS-announce mailing list >openafs-annou...@openafs.org >https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-announce > :�� T���&j)b� b�өzpJ)ߢ�^��좸!��l��b��(���~�+����Y���b�ا~�����~ȧ~
