Re: Offer for taking over maintainership

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Dear Jose E Marchesi

I am happy to hear of your endeavors.  I am publicly messaging you in my
capacity as a well-known and well-recognized idiot [1].

I am myself running an experiment very similar to yours, albeit on a
smaller scale.

The tasks you have taken upon yourself seem to be big, but remember, no
task is big for the determined.  I should applaud your braveness and
courage.  

I am inclined to share the following notes with you.

I would advise you to tread carefully on the third task.  You are likely
to have better chances of success if you could make discreet make
enquiries with the local church and law enforcement beforehand.
Remember you have to be very discreet, for the task is delicate and the
target is a celebrity dictator notorious for acerbic tongue.  (Of the
nature of his bottoms, I am not sure.)

I know first hand that the first task is currently appropriated by a
gentlemen named Bastien.  The said gentleman has won applauds for his
patience, stay-put-ness, well-mannered-isms and courteous and prompt
service.  (There detractors and nay-sayers but you can safely ignore
them.)  You may want to check the status after few weeks or months or
years.  You don't have to be disappointed with the loss of opportunity
and discouraged by a door slammed shut.  You can gain easy entry, if you
explore your luck as "a temp", as it is well-known that the said
gnetleman is in the habit of being away for 2-3 weeks at a stretch (on
some presumably important personal errands).  The time-aways are
promptly announced in the mailing list.  The period of leaves usually
varies and invariably extends by few days to few weeks than the
disclosed period.  (I pray that you treat the last piece of information
with confidence.  I trust your good self not to reveal it to others -
even the near and dear ones - the source of this little nugget of
information)

Seond task seems the most easiest of the three.  I have a friend who has
rat, cat and dog as pets, all adorable, who habit his house in peace.  

An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.  Stay healthy and all the best
with your endeavours.

Footnotes:

[1]  Don't hesitate to ask for references.  The references are
     respectable gentlemen working for various research institutes.

Your well-wisher,
Jambunathan K.

jemarch@gnu.org (Jose E. Marchesi) writes:

> I offer to take over maintainership of Org, gcc, and the Linux kernel.
>
> Offer closes in 7 days.  Only pre-conditions will be that Org gets
> ported to Notepad, gcc to be turned into a llvm front-end and Linus
> sodomized to death.  All that under my supervision.
>
> Principals and idiots can PM me with your thoughts.  I defend your
> right to eat pizza everyday and to make espressos freely.
>
> Note: Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to the dark
> side.

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