Hello, OIIO and OSL communities, and anybody else reading this.
My inbox is full of many hundreds (maybe thousands) of emails that I always
intended to take some action on, but for whatever reason never did and now the
pile is too big to realistically make a dent in. I also have a long backlog of
issues and PRs on my software projects, many of which have festered for so long
that they probably aren't even relevant to current releases.
So on January 1, 2019, I'm going to declare "email bankruptcy", and move the
entire contents of my inbox to various archive folders. They're still saved,
but by not being in the inbox they will be out of sight unless searched for, no
longer be considered part of my "to do" list. I'm also going to aggressively
close almost every issue about obsolete software versions and old pull requests
that are no longer directly mergeable or that never got enough consensus to act
on. I'll start fresh, and try better to keep on top of the deluge next year.
During the rest of the month -- during which I'm on "vacation" from work -- I'm
going to make a real effort to lay eyes on as many of these items as possible,
and rehabilitate the small fraction that seem truly tragic to drop. You may
notice this as my following up on long-dead threads and wonder what I'm up to.
This is what I'm up to -- thread necromancy.
But for the most part, I'm going to assume that (a) a long period without
anybody commenting or pestering me or rebasing onto modern versions means it
was likely not important after all, and (b) if I'm wrong about that, somebody
will re-contact me or re-open the issue in the future.
I apologize sincerely if your mail or issue is one that disappears in this way.
You deserved at least a reply, and it's my failure alone that it didn't happen.
I beg your forgiveness and seek amnesty. Re-contact me about any long lost
issue that still needs my attention.
Humbly yours in bankruptcy,
-- lg
--
Larry Gritz
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