INN maintenance and facing reality

[The Doctor]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:48:24PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.
> >   
> 
> Perhaps you could provide a list of features for "before release" and 
> "eventually" in 2.5, which could be discussed on the list and would be a 
> near term roadmap for the next maintainer.
> > 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 see no reason why those duties could not be split, and it might make 
> filling the positions easier not to require both administrative and 
> technical contributions. Since I no longer lead the nntp team at SBC I 
> lack resources and time to offer to do either part of these duties, but 
> reducing the scope of any job makes it easier to get volunteers.
> > 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.
> >
> >   


Right now who is on the team?

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