It is with a very heavy heart I feel I must resign as the current coder-com maintainer for Undernet. Unfortunately of late I've been having trouble with RSI or OOS, or whatever it's called in your country, basically it amounts to my wrists are very sore. I use a computer for a living, and, after I've Done My Time, I can't spend much time doing anything else with a computer. This leaves me in the very unfortunate position of not being able to work on Undernet related issues at all. Holding onto this position I feel is doing a disservice to Undernet, and thus, I feel it's time to pass the torch on.
I feel particularly bad about doing this just before 2.10.11 is released, but I don't think I can dedicate the time or effort to fix it without doing myself grave physical injury. I hope people can understand me leaving prematurely :( I believe that the current group of coders we have, and the people who help out as well will be able to do a better job than I can. Undernet's a great place, and I hope to see it go far. I don't know if I'm going to be around too much to help out. I suspect I'm going to have to give up on IRC to give my wrists a rest. I will dearly miss all my friends from IRC. I hope to see you all again, sooner, or later. :) I don't intend to just disappear in a puff of smoke, I'll hopefully be around watching and trying to help where I can, but I'll probably only lurk, as you can hopefully understand, I can't afford to talk too much. Coder-com I feel has come a long way in the last while, we now have several senior coders, and a group of younger coders who are learning the ropes and helping out regularly, all of who are active. We have, I hope, given the Undernet community several new, robust and scalable tools to help out, gnuworld, cmaster and ccontrol, and all their related paraphinalia. I hope that once coder-com can release .11 then we will see a fast and interesting release for .12 as well. I believe that the amount of work that Kev in particular has done for .11 will bring Undernet into an entirely new level of performance that admins can come to expect from their IRC daemon. I hope to nominate Kev as my successor, he knows the irc daemon better than anyone I think, especially how he went mad during the .11 release and rewrote almost all of it. I would like to suggest a yearly, or two yearly election for the coder-com maintainer. This will hopefully give the younger coders something to strive for, and give the more senior coders a point where they have to consider if they are still the best man for the job :) Hopefully this will push the IRC daemon further to newer, and greater things. I guess the details of all of this need to be worked out somehow later. There are some very smart and very capable people coming through coder-com, be sure to make sure that they are felt welcome, and are able to become part of the Undernet administration. Undernet's a great place, full of great people. It has it's problems, and it has it's strengths. Undernet is a place where people can meet and communicate. I feel that coder-com is one of Undernet's greatest assets, in a virtual world, coder-com are the people that build grand structures out of nothing but ideas and thought. I'm honoured to have been able to serve the Undernet community, and it (literally) brings tears to my eyes to be forced by things beyond my control to abandon it at this late hour. - Isomer (Perry Lorier) -- The End, run the credits, cue the final music.
