INN maintenance and facing reality
The Doctor
doctor at doctor.nl2k.ab.ca
Wed Feb 6 00:14:10 UTC 2008
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 10:58:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I really should have sent this message about a year ago, but I kept hoping
> I would discover more free time. However, this is looking increasingly
> unlikely.
>
> As everyone has noticed, there has not been a new release of INN in quite
> some time, and I have not been doing any active development. Due to a
> combination of significantly load in my paying job (that isn't related to
> Usenet) and other volunteer work, I've had essentially no time to work on
> INN for quite a while now. It doesn't look like this is going to change
> in the near future. As a result, I'm really not doing INN justice. At a
> minimum, a new INN STABLE release is overdue and INN 2.5 probably should
> just be released as-is without all the other things that I wanted to put
> in it.
>
> Realistically, I don't have the time to continue as lead maintainer or
> release manager, and haven't been filling either role for quite some time.
> If someone else is willing to pick up the release management role, please
> speak up. I'm happy to help as I can find the time and will try to make
> time to do a clean handoff. I'm also happy to continue to provide
> infrastructure, or ISC I'm sure is also willing to do so.
>
> I'm hopefully not disappearing entirely, and I will continue to try to
> comment on the list and do things for INN when I can, but I'll feel less
> guilty and more realistic if I don't expect myself to maintain the level
> of contribution that I have in the past.
>
> Peter, please let whoever needs to know at ISC about this as well.
>
As someone who has interest in NNTP, what will it take
to be prime maintainer?
2.5 is not ready IMHO and a new 2.4 is ready IMHO.
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