Nigel Cunningham, the creator of the Susped2 software suspend system for Linux [story [1]] announced his retirement from the project in a mail sent to the Linux Kenel Mailing List.

"Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the best of incentives to keep them up-to-date.

"Now for the downside: I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel after my move, and am not inclined to make a big effort beforehand.

Suspend2 worked better than the in-kernel software suspend solution, swsusp, for many people.

Update: Nigel has clarified [2] that he will continue to work on Suspend2, he's merely going to have less time [3] for it and will no longer be focused on merging it into the kernel. Suspend2 as a patchset is not going away. My apologies to anyone who was confused by this article. -Jeremy

List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    Nigel's work and the future of Suspend2.
From:       Nigel Cunningham [email blocked]
Date:       2006-03-07 0:05:51

Hi all.

I'm delighted to announce that I've accepted a call to serve a congregation in 
Victoria, Australia, as a Home Missionary elder. As a result, some time in 
the next month or two, I will stop working for Cyclades and make the move.

Users of Suspend2 can rest assured that I will not allow the patches to suffer 
bitrot. I will be continuing to use them myself, and will therefore have the 
best of incentives to keep them up-to-date.

Now for the downside: I won't, however, be making any sort of concerted effort 
at getting them merged into the vanilla kernel after my move, and am not 
inclined to make a big effort beforehand. Recent discussions on LKML clearly 
showed that Pavel doesn't want to see them merged, and I didn't see much in 
the way of other kernel developers expressing a desire contrary to Pavel's 
wishes. I don't want to waste my time and effort, so I don't see the point to 
doing anything but maintaining the patches as they stand.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Cyclades for their employment and 
support of the project.

Regards,

Nigel

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