Dear list, As of 20th Feb, 2010 2pm GMT, my Samsung 80GB harddisk, after four years of services, have finally come to dead. I think this is the right time for me to withdraw from the freenet community completely.
If you have a good memory, around 1.5 years ago, my computer suffered from a motherboard failure. Since then, I have much less involvement in the development. --- The fact is, I was, at the time, struggling to spend more time on reading bible and serving my Lord. I prayed my Lord, and the motherboard fails. I took this as a sign for me to involve less in this project. Yesterday night, I was praying, again, for the forgiveness of my sin. I said to my Lord that, if he see fit, take away the computer so I won't have it as my idol. And, yea, the computer die. Now, I don't have any computer powerful enough to run freenet. Sorry, Toad. I can't complete the library/spider Chinese support. The code in xmlspider should be very easy to port to xmllibrary, as I have done some cleanup before commit. Sorry xor, I can't continue the freenet-git bot. I do have some backup of that piece of code, but I don't have any spare harddisk for restoring it. If you found that too important, I may ask my friends help me to restore them. "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven" (Eccl 3:1). I know this is very sudden -- it surprise me as well. But this is the right time to move on. Goodbye friends, I will miss you all. Regards, Daniel Cheng (aka SDiZ)
