Re: Downscaling responsibilities

2016-01-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Enrico Zini writes: > it has been clear to me for a while that I am unable to stay on top of > my Debian responsibilities. I feel like my usual pattern of things in > debian has gone like this: > > 1. I see a problem, I have an idea how to solve it, I make a prototype > for it, I deploy it

Re: Downscaling responsibilities

2016-01-30 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 05:02:10PM +, Ian Jackson wrote: > Enrico Zini writes ("Downscaling responsibilities"): > > I have now decided to hit the reset button and end this situation. I'm > > going to orphan most of my packages, and radically scale down the >

Re: Downscaling responsibilities

2016-01-30 Thread Enrico Zini
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 03:20:48PM +, Chris Boot wrote: > I guess the bit I don't follow is removing features from various > services, but carrying on maintaining them. Chopping some overengineering out of debtags.debian.net is something I could actually have fun with. I also hope that by fre

Re: Downscaling responsibilities

2016-01-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Enrico Zini writes ("Downscaling responsibilities"): > [stuff] I just wanted to say thanks for all the work you have put in. And also to tell you that it is totally OK to not want to end up here: > 2. I get stuck looking after it forever. So it is totally OK for you to to do

Re: Downscaling responsibilities

2016-01-30 Thread Chris Boot
On 30/01/16 13:22, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello, > > it has been clear to me for a while that I am unable to stay on top of > my Debian responsibilities. Hi Enrico, First of all, I'm sure I won't be the only person to want to thank you for all that you have done for Debian (and beyond) so far. It'

Downscaling responsibilities

2016-01-30 Thread Enrico Zini
Hello, it has been clear to me for a while that I am unable to stay on top of my Debian responsibilities. I feel like my usual pattern of things in debian has gone like this: 1. I see a problem, I have an idea how to solve it, I make a prototype for it, I deploy it, look after it until I se