Health comes first, thank you for your great work. Your ideas might ease life for embedded development in the future. Also I personally appreciate that you always gave very good support on this mailing list.
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 07:06 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > For reasons of ill health, I am forced to reduce my Emdebian workload > substantially. This means that I will be focusing on Grip and no longer > driving any development of cross-building support in Debian or Emdebian > Crush. > > This is *not* open for debate or negotiation, any pleas or complaints > are only likely to make my future contributions smaller. The decision > has been hard enough as it is, I don't need people nagging me or trying > to persuade me to change my mind. I must reduce my total workload by at > least one to two hours every single day and that has consequences. I > simply no longer have time to work on Crush 2.0 and that's final. (I > have been pointing out that this was a possible outcome for months. Two > weeks in hospital just forced my hand.) > > There is now no realistic chance of Emdebian Crush being released > alongside Debian 6.0 (squeeze). Even if someone does step up now, it is > most likely too late as the amount of work required means that any > volunteers will need to be up to speed almost immediately and I don't > have time to answer huge numbers of queries on what needs to be done. > Most of the issues are described on the EmdebianCodeAudit pages on the > wiki, the rest you'll find out for yourself when you start building > stuff. > > There is also little realistic chance that cross-building support in > general will improve, indeed it is likely that unless someone takes > over, it will only get worse. > > I'm looking for co-maintainers (who should already be Debian > Developers, not just because of the uploads but because of the breadth > of experience necessary when coping with all the varied build systems > within Debian) of core Emdebian packages too: > > apt-cross > dpkg-cross > emdebian-tools > (not emdebian-grip or emdebian-archive-keyring) > emdebian-rootfs (possibly, although I'll keep developing multistrap). > > Necessarily, co-maintainers also need good perl skills and will need to > have commit access to the Emdebian SVN repo (ask Wookey for that). > emdebian-rootfs requires good perl, bash and POSIX shell skills. > > I'll file RFH bugs against these packages in the next few days, as well > as announcing the change on debian-devel. > > On a positive note, this does mean that Grip development will pick up > and that a much wider range of packages will be available in Grip 2.0. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
