Hi Rolf, Ralph Little writes:
> Hi, > > On 2020-08-26 4:46 a.m., Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: >> Hi Rolf, >> >> Rolf Bensch writes: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Congratulations to all who contributed his/her ideas, code and at least >>> time for the new SANE release. >>> >>> After having some time with reflecting my after-work activities, I >>> decided to say Goodbye to the SANE project, especially as maintainer for >>> the pixma backend. > > OMG what? :( > >> I'm very, very sad to see you say goodbye. Thanks for all the time and >> effort you've put into the pixma backend. Based on the frequency with >> which it popped up here on the mailing list as well as in GitLab issues >> your leaving the SANE Project will have quite a bit of an impact :-( > > Hear, hear. > You have always been responsive, courteous and helpful to me and that > gave me an excellent introduction to the world of SANE. > >> >>> If somebody hears the calling to become a maintainer for the pixma >>> backend, he/she is welcome to contact me off-list for discussing any >>> questions about structure and functionality. > > If I had the time I might be up for that and in the future, perhaps that > might come to pass, but I think for the moment I will just interject > every now and then and do what I can. > That includes finishing up the work that I am doing now. > > What will happen to your PPAs? Are you planning to hand that over to > someone else? > I know they are a big deal for many people, including myself. Yeah, I realized I forgot to mention that a wee while after I dashed off my initial response. I'm curious as well. Especially because I've been thinking of getting rid of our daily date-stamped source tarballs. I've only been keeping those alive for your PPA really :-) Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join
