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Posted to users@cocoon.apache.org by Tony Collen <tc...@neuagency.com> on 2003/05/27 07:13:50 UTC
Unplugging
Hi everybody,
I've decided to unplug for a while. I'm in the midst of packing up and
moving to a new apartment, and with the summer semester starting at
school, I'm finding that I have less and less time to devote to the lists.
On top of that, I'm not even using Cocoon at work. The project that I've
been rolling around in my noodle for the past few months has hit a
critical point, where either I keep working out it, and be totally
uninterested in it, or put the breaks on it and come back later when I
have the passion again. Although I've had several people inquiring about
the project (RSS weather feeds), and the time seems right to "unleash" it
as it were, I don't think I could put forth a decent effort into the
project, and risk releasing a shoddy service.
With the extra classwork, and the "daily grind" as it were, I'm also
becoming less and less interested in programming as a hobby.
Unfortunately, these lists, and Cocoon in general fall under the "hobby"
umbrella, so I've decided that I need a break.
Blogging will be light (see URL below), if at all, and I'll be unsubbing
from the Cocoon lists until I'm no longer burnt-out. I could be gone a
week, a month, or even more. (Hopefully not anything as drastic as a
year, though :) ) On a side note, I have been immensely pleased to see
Stefano and Carsten patch things up between them. The skies have indeed
cleared a considerable amount in Cocoon Land the past couple days.
Ciao everybody,
Tony
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Re: Unplugging
Posted by Stefano Mazzocchi <st...@apache.org>.
on 5/28/03 1:43 AM Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> > Tony Collen wrote:
> >
> >>Hi everybody,
> >>
> >>I've decided to unplug for a while.
> ....
> >>http://manero.org/weblog/
>
> David Crossley wrote, On 28/05/2003 2.22:
>
>
>>Thanks Tony, for all the excellent contributions that you
>>have made while you have been with us. Hope to see you back
>>again sometime. You are not alone with the "burn-out" issue.
>
>
> Yes, as some have started seeing, I'm in the "burn-out" issue too.
> I'm reducing my involvement in projects to the minimum, although I have
> been told I must totally unplug.
I have first-hand experience that complete unplug is the way to go. If
you feel you are addicted to something, either you stop or you keep
being addicted, there is no half way thru unfortunately.
> I hope this will help me be more concretely valuable and less noisy.
Noise is what makes evolution evolutionary. ;-)
> Hope I don't have to resort to totally unplugging <fingers crossed>
Unplugging doesn't mean to never be able to come back. You can taste
wine without being a alcoholic. But if you become one, you don't taste
it anymore.
Whether one could stop being an alcoholic and start tasting wine again,
well, I don't know. :-/
>>Wishing you all the best.
>
>
> Same here, Tony.
Same here. To Tony and to all who feel burned out or fed up or whatever.
The doors of the cocoon community are always open :-)
--
Stefano.
Re: Unplugging
Posted by Nicola Ken Barozzi <ni...@apache.org>.
> Tony Collen wrote:
>
>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>I've decided to unplug for a while.
...
>>http://manero.org/weblog/
David Crossley wrote, On 28/05/2003 2.22:
> Thanks Tony, for all the excellent contributions that you
> have made while you have been with us. Hope to see you back
> again sometime. You are not alone with the "burn-out" issue.
Yes, as some have started seeing, I'm in the "burn-out" issue too.
I'm reducing my involvement in projects to the minimum, although I have
been told I must totally unplug.
I hope this will help me be more concretely valuable and less noisy.
Hope I don't have to resort to totally unplugging <fingers crossed>
> Wishing you all the best.
Same here, Tony.
--
Nicola Ken Barozzi nicolaken@apache.org
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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Re: Unplugging
Posted by David Crossley <cr...@indexgeo.com.au>.
Thanks Tony, for all the excellent contributions that you
have made while you have been with us. Hope to see you back
again sometime. You are not alone with the "burn-out" issue.
Wishing you all the best.
--David
Tony Collen wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've decided to unplug for a while. I'm in the midst of packing up and
> moving to a new apartment, and with the summer semester starting at
> school, I'm finding that I have less and less time to devote to the lists.
>
> On top of that, I'm not even using Cocoon at work. The project that I've
> been rolling around in my noodle for the past few months has hit a
> critical point, where either I keep working out it, and be totally
> uninterested in it, or put the breaks on it and come back later when I
> have the passion again. Although I've had several people inquiring about
> the project (RSS weather feeds), and the time seems right to "unleash" it
> as it were, I don't think I could put forth a decent effort into the
> project, and risk releasing a shoddy service.
>
> With the extra classwork, and the "daily grind" as it were, I'm also
> becoming less and less interested in programming as a hobby.
> Unfortunately, these lists, and Cocoon in general fall under the "hobby"
> umbrella, so I've decided that I need a break.
>
> Blogging will be light (see URL below), if at all, and I'll be unsubbing
> from the Cocoon lists until I'm no longer burnt-out. I could be gone a
> week, a month, or even more. (Hopefully not anything as drastic as a
> year, though :) ) On a side note, I have been immensely pleased to see
> Stefano and Carsten patch things up between them. The skies have indeed
> cleared a considerable amount in Cocoon Land the past couple days.
>
> Ciao everybody,
>
> Tony
>
> --
> Tony Collen
> ICQ: 12410567
> --
> Cocoon: Internet Glue (A weblog about Apache Cocoon)
> http://manero.org/weblog/
> --
Re: Unplugging
Posted by Bertrand Delacretaz <bd...@codeconsult.ch>.
Le Mardi, 27 mai 2003, à 07:13 Europe/Zurich, Tony Collen a écrit :
> I've decided to unplug for a while...
Thanks Tony for what you have done here in the last few months!
Hopefully you will be back at some point.
> ...On top of that, I'm not even using Cocoon at work...
You might want to switch jobs ;-)
-Bertrand
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