Hello everyone, As some of you already know, I'm moving on from Stanford and joining the Dropbox site reliability engineering team (in other words, I'll be working on their servers, not on the Dropbox product). My last day at Stanford will be August 15th. My work on OpenAFS and various related software was primarily related to my job at Stanford, so I'm going to be orphaning a variety of work as part of this move.
I should note that this decision is not at the behest of my new employer, who would have been happy to work out arrangements to let me continue to work on AFS-related things. But most of my impetus for working on AFS was due to Stanford's needs, and I've decided to take advantage of this change to shed some obligations and make room for other hobbies in my life. I will also be stepping down as maintainer of the OpenAFS packaging for Debian (and therefore also for Ubuntu), although I am happy to help sponsor uploads for others and aid with transition to other maintainers. Also, I am orphaning the following AFS-related packages, all of which are free to a good home. * AFS Balancing * AFS Mount points * AFS Reporting DB * afs-admin-tools (https://github.com/rra/afs-admin-tools) * afs-backend * afs-monitor (https://github.com/rra/afs-monitor) * AFS::PAG (https://github.com/rra/afs-pag) * pam-afs-session (https://github.com/rra/pam-afs-session) These are all also available from the software section of my web site at <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/>. If you would like to take over primary maintenance of any of these packages, let me know. For those that I had already moved to Git, I've pushed a copy of the Git repository to Github to make it easier for others to pick them up. For the ones that are still languishing in CVS, I can probably provide most of the CVS ,v files via email by request. (I need to check them first to be sure there isn't anything Stanford-private in them.) For all of these packages, until a new maintenance team can adopt them (or until it's been long enough that it doesn't look like there's any ongoing interest), I will release updates for any serious security issues. I may also be able to make some final releases of some of these packages to incorporate various pending work (but please don't count on that, as I have rather a lot to take care of in the next couple of weeks). But, apart from that, I won't be making any more releases of these packages. In some cases, Stanford will have some ongoing interest in the code, and someone else at Stanford may make subsequent releases, but I don't expect that to happen in the near future for any of the packages listed above. Their current versions generally meet Stanford's needs as is. I will continue maintaining many of my other packages, including kstart, going forward, and I'm sure I'll continue to see many of you around in the Kerberos community. In a few weeks, I'll be unsubscribing from the various OpenAFS mailing lists, but always feel free to send me direct email at this address, although obviously I won't be able to offer much help with AFS-related things since I no longer expect to be using AFS. I've been very happy to meet many of you through AFS-related things over the years. I hope to see you all around the larger open source community in the future. Best of luck with future development and improvements to AFS! -- Russ Allbery (ea...@eyrie.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list OpenAFS-devel@openafs.org https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
