Fwd: Your membership in arsenal-devel is about to expire

[Florent 'Skia' Jacquet]

Hi Bryce!

Le 18/09/2025 à 19:50, Bryce Harrington a écrit :
> Hi Skia,
> 
> I don't know if you saw but I am retiring.

I've just caught up that after my PTO. Please do enjoy your retirement, and many 
thanks for all your awesome work!

> Thank you for maintaining this software all these years!
> With as much change as Python has gone through over this period, it's
> honestly surprising this still works, so props to you and others that
> have kept it working over the past decade.
> 
> I've added you as an admin, and set your expiry date to 2030.  Since
> you're the last active maintainer on the project, I'd change owner to
> you, but guessing that only Brian can do that now.

Thanks! I do hope that this thing will have been killed by 2030. It's all bzr, 
so probably won't survive anyway.

> 
> Finally, let me mention another, newer application called PDBQ, which is
> kind of a spiritual descendant of Arsenal.  My intention was for it to
> eventually provide the same report generating features as Arsenal, and
> become its replacement, but unfortunately I never got far enough into
> that line of development that I could recommend it.  Still, PDBQ has
> some of the necessary bones (LP queries of bugs by tag/status/etc.,
> python class structures, web display) that would be useful in
> replicating some of these features from Arsenal.  Lena is taking over
> maintenance of PDBQ going forward, so I'd suggest connecting with her if
> there is interest in exploring that idea.

Oh, nice! I'll see with her to share some knowledge around that, and that might 
actually accelerate the killing of Arsenal :-)

Cheers!
Skia