Hello, friends!
You might have noticed that I haven't been present on the list or perhaps answered your direct email in several months. I'm sorry I've been away so long without a word, but I'm not coming back any time soon. There's no big news with me. I've just found that I've drifted away and today I'm acknowledging what's already happened.
This summer marks 30 years since I began writing the GNU C Library. (That's two thirds of my lifespan so far.) It's long enough.
So, I'm hereby declaring myself maintainer emeritus and withdrawing from direct involvement in the project. These past several months, if not the last few years, have proven that you don't need me any more.
You'll make good decisions, as you've already made good decisions. You'll actually get around to implementing some of the things I've been suggesting or meaning to do (or saying I would do) for years, as you've already made progress on some of those ideas in recent months. If I stayed around to give advice, you'd ignore my advice to be more paranoid and more cautious, plow ahead anyway, ship it, and then have to redress the problem when the practical issues manifested, as you've already done and had to do. :-) All in all, I have no doubt at all that the job you're doing now and will do in the future maintaining glibc is better than I ever did that job myself and at least as good as my presence in the project might ever make it.
