03.23
Well I finally faced up to the reality that I have little time for active OpenBSD porting and shot off an email to OpenBSD portsmaster pval@ saying as much. In short, I resigned.
It sucks but it was also way past time.
I first got into OpenBSD at version 2.8 because at the time I was all into infosec and OpenBSD was the OS of choice. I soon started fixing ports and then maintaining them. I started helping out on porting Gnome 2.0 to OpenBSD and in 2002 was offered commit access.
Gnome was my thing at the time. It was (and still is), however, huge and unwieldy and had its fingers into everything. Generally a huge pain in the ass, but it also spawned quite a few bug fixes across the ports tree and even some in the source tree.
Gnome, the ultimate regression test. 
Over time my interest in porting Gnome waned (owing a lot to my purchase of a Mac Mini as my primary desktop) and maintaining it became a chore. The killing blow came around Chrstmas when someone discovered a bug in a prereqesit to GTK+ 2.8 that made GTK+ apps (like Mozilla) die on certain 8-bit displays and it was my fault for not testing this.
Yeah, 8-bit displays, all two of them.
It’s a long, sad story and with a direction being taken I was not all together happy with, it also made it painfully obvious that my interest was at an all time low.
So currently my commit account is only disabled, which is a good thing as I’m sure I’ll be back when time and intrest permit. I still have nothing but respect for the OpenBSD developers and the goals they have. OpenBSD is still in my mind the only open source OS that does it right.
So go buy some CDs just don’t look for my name in the liner notes .
