Hello Fotios! I guess it's time for some (pre-)anouncement. :-) On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 02:06:00PM GMT, Fotios Valasiadis wrote: > Hello Alex, > > I too am thankful for your work, manpages were the only doc I had as a > low level dev writing tools utilizing some of linux's niche system > calls, literally wouldn't have managed without them. Thank you very much! I've felt a lot of support and appreciation from the community after the anuncement from September. I'd like to thank everyone who showed their support and spread the news. I've also received a lot of support from small companies, which suprised me for good; they offered what they could to get me back to maintaining the project. That's very much appreciated. It's amazing how quick this situation has been resolved, and it's thanks to the community (and some people who have helped a lot with the Linux Foundation). > I see you are somewhat active again, out of curiosity, did you find > funding, or are you contributing some patches voluntarily once more? We've been talking for a couple of months, and we have already agreed to sign a contract through the LF, where a number of companies provide the funds for the contract. The contract will cover the next 12 months for the agreed amount, and we should sign it in the following days. Since I've already seen a draft of the contract, and it looks good, I've already started maintaining the project again, starting on Nov 1st. I will make another anouncement when the contract is signed, where I'd like to publicly thank the sponsors, and make it official that I'll stay as maintainer, but yeah, you can count on that. :) > Mind you I ain't assuming you are back as a maintainer just because > you got some patches handled. > > Thanks! > Fotis Have a lovely night! Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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