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34 <PRE>Hi, Possibley you could when you leave put the ircservices code on
35 sourceforge.net so after you leave someone else can take over.On Sun,
13
36 May
2007, Trevor Talbot wrote:
38 ><i> On May
6,
2007, at
1:
18 AM, Andrew Church wrote:
40 </I>><i> > The second, and more important, reason for posting the announcement to
41 </I>><i> > this list is that I intend version
5.1 to be the last version of IRC
42 </I>><i> > Services, at least under my care. While I don't consider Services
43 </I>><i> > "complete
"--software development is a neverending task, and in any case
44 </I>><i> > users' needs change over time--I do believe that it's time for me to move on
45 </I>><i> > to other things. In fact, I already devote a fair amount of my time outside
46 </I>><i> > of work to other software development projects (such as the audio/video tool
47 </I>><i> > "transcode
", for those who are familiar with it), and I have other hobbies
48 </I>><i> > which I haven't been able to pursue as much as I'd like. I've also found
49 </I>><i> > that I personally use IRC very infrequently these days, and that has
50 </I>><i> > inevitably lessened my interest in continuing Services development as well.
52 </I>><i> > I realize that this
"end-of-life
" announcement for Services may come as
53 </I>><i> > a surprise to some, and for that I apologize. As I mentioned earlier, I
54 </I>><i> > will continue to support Services for some time to come (my current thought
55 </I>><i> > is for two to three years after the release of
5.1.0); however, I did want
56 </I>><i> > to provide advance warning of my future intentions. Thank you all for your
57 </I>><i> > support over the years.
59 </I>><i> Even though it's not
"over
", I wanted to say a couple things.
61 </I>><i> First, thank you for all the work you've done during the last several years.
62 </I>><i> Besides IRC Services itself, most of the NickServ/ChanServ -style services
63 </I>><i> packages in use today trace their origins to your software in one form or
64 </I>><i> another. Inspiring that much development is no small accomplishment. I've
65 </I>><i> certainly customized IRC Services for specific uses in the past. We've also
66 </I>><i> had discussions about irc3, which has inspired me personally to think about
67 </I>><i> IRC in a slightly different way for several years now. I've found that line
68 </I>><i> of thought to be quite intriguing, and perhaps it will lead to me to create
69 </I>><i> something useful later on.
71 </I>><i> And second, thank you for having an
"exit plan
". Far too many projects are
72 </I>><i> simply abandoned by their authors and maintainers. While obviously software
73 </I>><i> such as this cannot take priority over other life concerns, it's great to see
74 </I>><i> someone recognize they will be unable to continue ahead of time, and plan to
75 </I>><i> make that eventuality as painless as possible for those who use it.
77 </I>><i> -- Quension
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