Re: Nigel's work and the future of Suspend2.

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm delighted to announce that I've accepted a call to serve a congregation in 
> Victoria, Australia, as a Home Missionary elder. As a result, some time in 
> the next month or two, I will stop working for Cyclades and make the move.
> Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer 
> bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the 
> best of incentives to keep them up-to-date.
I think you for all your work, and I hope that your new calling will be 
satisfying!
> Now for the downside: I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort 
> at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel after my move, and am not 
> inclined to make a big effort beforehand. Recent discussions on LKML clearly 
> showed that Pavel doesn't want to see them merged, and I didn't see much in 
> the way of other kernel developers expressing a desire contrary to Pavel's 
> wishes. I don't want to waste my time and effort, so I don't see the point to 
> doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand.
I have never had any problems with Suspend1 in terms of SUSPEND, 
although I was hoping at some time that RESUME functionality would be 
added as well ;-) Suspend2 has worked for my laptops, and I'm delighted 
that you will be continuing your work.
> I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Cyclades for their employment and 
> support of the project.
--
   -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
 last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

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