Subject: Departure -- hopefully temporary

From: Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 08:56:29 -0700 (PDT)

I'm afraid that I must drop off the debian project for now.
I'm still on track to drop off the net around mid July, due
to relocation to the Philippines, and I need to spend a larger
portion of my time getting ready for the move.  I'm not sure
where in the Philippines I'll end up, or whether a net connection
will be workable from wherever that may be.  Hopefully, I'll
be rejoining the project in a couple of months.  I'm unsubscribing
from the lists as of today, but I'll still be reachable by email
for the next couple of weeks.

I've been involved in the debian project since day one, and it's
been a good experience.  We've produced a top-notch distribution,
but it's still got some rough edges.  I think some of those rough
edges would have been smoother if we'd made a few design decisions
differently.  In those areas where the rough edges really matter,
the design decisions which they grow out of will get re-thought to
smooth out the roughness.  That's already happened in a couple of
areas.

Most of my packages have found homes.  I have three packages left,
one of which is an important one.  I'm afraid that they're now
orphans.  The following is disposition information on my former
packages:

bc-1.03             gone to Austin Donnelly <[email-masked]>
cvs-1.8.1           gone to [email-masked]
diff-2.7            gone to Dale Scheetz <[email-masked]>
ed-0.2              gone to Austin Donnelly <[email-masked]>
file-3.19           gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
indent-1.9.1        gone to Steve Greenland <[email-masked]>
jgraph-83           ORPHAN
patch-2.1           gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
sharutils-4.2       gone to [email-masked]
symlinks-1.0        gone to [email-masked]
# need ncurses for these
ae-962              ORPHAN (important)
beav-140            ORPHAN
less-290            gone to "Darren/Torin/Who Ever..." <[email-masked]>
git-4.3.9           gone to Klee Dienes <[email-masked]>
ee-126.1.89         gone to Steve Greenland <[email-masked]>
elvis-2.0           gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>
# need elf X11
xasteroids-5.0      gone to Klee Dienes <[email-masked]>
# not elf-ized yet
kermit-190          gone to "Susan G. Kleinmann" <[email-masked]>

[email-masked] (Bill Mitchell)

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From: Dale Scheetz <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:10:54 -0400 (EDT)

If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the
bug still outstanding?

> [email-masked] (Bill Mitchell)

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From: Rob Browning <[email-masked]>
Date: 30 Jun 1996 11:30:45 -0500

Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]> writes:

OK, I'll take this one.

> jgraph-83           ORPHAN

Good luck Bill.  Hope your move goes well.

--
Rob

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From: Bill Mitchell <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 1996 09:53:38 -0700 (PDT)

>If no one else wants it, I think I have room on my plate for ae. Is the

You're the first one to speak up, so I guess it's yours.

I've cleared the multi-arch compatability bug in ae, and made
similar changes to clear the same problem in my other two orphaned
packages, beav and jgraph.

On ae -- I'm out of touch with the upstream author.  He was formerly
reachable as Anthony Howe <[email-masked]>, but he dropped off
the net back in February due to relocation to France.  He was
expecting to be back in touch in May, but I haven't heard from him.

The ae "upstream sources" are a private set of sources which grew
out of Anthony's bugfix work on things which turned up as ae was
shaken down in Debian.  He hadn't made a public release with that
source set before he dropped out of touch.