Hello, for over two years I have no physical access to an alpha anymore, since last year I have remote access though. But to maintain (and improve!) aboot this is not enough, especially since I notice how I loose my knowledge about alphas in general and aboot in special. Thus I intend to orphan aboot instead of pretending to still be able to maintain it. If necessary, I can still push changes upstream (though I cannot do releases there, unfortunately).
So what is the status?
*1.0~pre20040408-3 is "ready to go", 1.0~pre20040408-4 just started
(could be folded in -3). So if you like you could start with an
upload right away. I'm not a DD, so a "goodby upload" is impossible
for me.
*Upstream is dead. I still have e-mail addresses, but both upstream
maintainers do not respond for a prolonged time already.
*I can still write in the CVS repository upstream, but I have no
privileges there to do releases and similar things.
How will I proceed?
*I will run once more through [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then
unsubscribe
*Sometime in march I will retitle this bug to "orphan" and update
debian/control to remove my maintainership (unless a new maintainer
is found by then), also in README.Debian I will set myself as
"former" maintainer
*I will update the web page in April and set myself as former
maintainer of the alpha related web pages. Having now a really
complete list of alpha machines with no new machines built is a
fairly good state for the web page.
*I will once more think about all the good times on my alpha, from the
very first boot (still milo based) to the awesome experience what
worked on the machine (TV, various SCSI, ...), including all the nice
experiences (starting with RedHat, one boot into SUSE and finally the
debianization)
*Life moves on, thanks for all the fish!
Greetings
Helge
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