Welcome back! Completely understandable as I was in a similar situation the past few months but have moved on to independent consulting and have regained a lot of time finally. Java 9 (and now 10!) are definitely great places to improve!
On 21 December 2017 at 10:35, Gary Gregory <garydgreg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome back B! Enjoy the holidays! > > Gary > > On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Benedikt Ritter <brit...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > following the example from Rob in early November, I’d like to explain my > > recent two month in-actvity. > > > > As always this has been work related. I had to go through a pretty tough > > phase at work, that consumed all my energy. I’m currently working on a > > green field project for a customer, which will replace the customers core > > systems. So the project is very important for them and we had to cope > with > > people leaving the project, becoming sink and of corse issues with the > > infrastructure ;-) Further more the project is located in Hamburg in > > northern Germany and I’m living near Düsseldorf in western Germany which > > means I have to travel to Hamburg every two weeks. Beside that my girl > > friend turned 30 last week and we organized a big party for > sixty-something > > friends. So a lot to do for too few time. > > > > But the year is almost over and I’m looking forward to some relaxing days > > off where I have some time to work on Apache stuff again. So I’m planning > > to work on my TODO list where I left off. I remember that I wanted to > push > > some releases for Java 9 compatibility and move some of the components to > > git… I’ll have to dig though my mails to find out what I wanted to do > > next... > > Another amazing thing that has just happened is that my company [1] > > brought their very first project to the Apache Incubator [2] and I’m part > > of that! > > > > So I’m looking forward to being more involved again! > > Cheers, > > Benedikt > > > > [1] https://www.codecentric.de > > [2] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/plc4x.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > -- Matt Sicker <boa...@gmail.com>