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<div>Hello all,</div><div><br></div><div> As some of you may already
know from comments in the GitHub pull requests and other media, due to
pre-emption by real life our long-term leader and main maintainer,
Arnaud Quette, had to step down from this role and from intensive
involvement in the NUT project (we hope he would still be able to help
on occasion, time permitting). He asked the members of the core team to
take over, and it seems I am the one most available for this role. Great
thanks and kudos to Arno for giving his 15+ years to the free community
service, and for entrusting me the keys and reins!<br></div><div><br></div><div> I suppose this is a good moment to introduce myself :)</div><div><br></div><div> I am Jim Klimov, involved in numerous open source projects (<a href="https://github.com/jimklimov?tab=repositories&type=source" target="_blank">https://github.com/jimklimov?tab=repositories&type=source</a>)
since the last millennium. Notably, I was a NUT user since Russell
Kroll was in charge, although it seems the mailing list history does not
span that far back, and I was not too active in the mail channels for
some time now.
You could have seen my activities in other communities, such as
illumos/OpenIndiana/OmniOS, Jenkins, znapzend, ZeroMQ, OBS (Open Build
System), and even bits of VirtualBox and Git itself. IT is a
surprisingly small world, so those who were around long enough, could
see me frequent the Sun forums and mailing lists for many of their
products and ecosystems, and Linux mailing lists even longer ago.
For several years now I have been working with Arno (even if seated in
different countries) on the 42ity project, which builds upon NUT to
offer a larger IT+Power management solution.<br></div><div><br></div><div>
My professional past is less of "proper" application software
development and more of systems administration, CI support, scripting
and lower-level integration of products with systems they run on (in
modern terms that would likely be called dev-ops) across probably all
major operating systems and many enterprise product stacks and different
CPU architectures, and helping colleague developers getting their jobs
done - and be as portable as possible.<br></div><div><br></div><div> My
general pre-disposition is that I actually like to "forge the tools of
my trade", given that probably no tools are made to perfectly fit the
ever-changing conditions we try to wedge them into. And open-source is a
huge driver of that, both in allowing to trace why one's setup does not
work, and giving a chance to fix that for yourself and then to share
the improvement with others (and probably get feedback from better
experts in the area), and encouraging that to happen.</div><div><br></div><div> I hope to see many more of you at <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/" target="_blank">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/</a> and <a href="https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pulls/" target="_blank">https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/pulls/</a>
- I really do find the SCM platforms better suited to discussing (and
cross-linking) the code and its use-cases,
and eventually proposing
features, fixes and improvements. But all that said, I hope to maintain a
greater presence on the NUT mailing lists from now on :)<br></div><div><br></div><div>
<pre><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thanks for your patience, help and support,<br>and may the NUT be with you. Always! ;-)<font color="#888888"><br></font></span></pre><font color="#888888"><pre><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Jim Klimov</span></pre></font></div>
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