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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cvs-1.8.1 gone to [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff-2.7 gone to Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ed-0.2 gone to Austin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> file-3.19 gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> indent-1.9.1 gone to Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jgraph-83 ORPHAN patch-2.1 gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sharutils-4.2 gone to [EMAIL PROTECTED] symlinks-1.0 gone to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # need ncurses for these ae-962 ORPHAN (important) beav-140 ORPHAN less-290 gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> git-4.3.9 gone to Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ee-126.1.89 gone to Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> elvis-2.0 gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # need elf X11 xasteroids-5.0 gone to Klee Dienes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> # not elf-ized yet kermit-190 gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Mitchell)