On Friday October 22 2004 7:36, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 10/22/2004 11:29 AM, Ed L. wrote:
> > Wow.  First, thanks again for all your efforts, Jan.  Second, I'm
> > disappointed to hear the slony author and lead developer is leaving the
> > slony leadership.  When is that going to happen?  And what does that
> > mean with respect to your future involvement in slony?
>
> It means that I will try to do with Slony-I what I have done
> successfully with several other PostgreSQL related projects - to make
> sure the project doesn't depend on me in person any more. None of the
> big items I've done (rewrite rule system, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, TOAST,
> NUMERIC, foreign keys) really requires my attention if there's a bug. I
> was able to do the conceptual work and important parts of the
> implementation, but I didn't get stuck in/with the maintenance. I
> constider this a very important aspect of being a CORE developer.
>
> What I am trying to do is to spend less and less time on Slony-I and
> more and more time on Slony-II - the synchronous multi-master system.
> Slony-I was for sure one of the better things that I've done so far, but
> it's not going to allow early retirement with financial independance and
> wealth. And as long as Afilias is using Slony-I in production, Andrew
> Sullivan will not let me do whatever I want if there's a severe problem
> nobody else can fix.
>
> So don't worry, I'll be around.

Well, in my view, if slony goes as well as your prior efforts, there is good 
reason to be optimistic.  Here's to wishing that your future efforts result 
in, among other things, early retirement and financial independence for 
you.

Is there any relationship between the Afilias multi-master project slony 
1.1??

Ed