Isomer, I'm really sorry to hear that. You've been doing a very good job for Undernet with your coding talents and time dedication. Plus, you've been one of the most helpful ircop on the undernet.
Undernet coders make a very nice team. More than one coder has exceptional talents in coding and time to dedicate to coder-com but your absence *will* make a difference. Thanks for being what you are, and I hope your wrist problem wont affect too much your other activities. friendly, Hidden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isomer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Isomer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 8:51 AM Subject: [Coder-Com] Resigning as Coder-com maintainer > 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.
