Rumors of my retirement are greatly exagerated (well, not that much). I did 
retire, but I took it back, and now I'm just as active was I was previously!

Due to the mostly automated nature of releng these days, there's not much need 
for this mailing list or the IRC channel to be "chatty".

On 08/07/2010 04:15 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> All,
>
> I have noticed that this list and the gentoo-releng irc channel
> have been dead for a very long time, and I remember seeing a post a
> while back in which agaffney announced his retirement.  Also there are
> multiple bugs open on livecd-tools, and there has been no attempt to fix
> them.
>
> I offered to join the team a while back, but was told there was no time
> to train me.
>
> So, I am concerned about the releng project.  What is it's status?  Do
> we have anyone who is in the project any longer?
>
> What about the maintenance of their tools?  I see from the live ebuilds
> that they are maintained on git repositories that are not part of
> gentoo's infrastructure, and, in the case of livecd-tools, there have
> been no changes since December of last year.
>
> Can someone respond to gentoo-releng and let us know the status of the
> project?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> William
>

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer            Catalyst/Genkernel + Release Engineering Lead