It seems I’ve never got enough time these days.
I’m a FreeBSD ports committer, but recently I’ve hardly done anything. All I’ve managed to do is keep my own ports updated. It’s quite frustrating because I want to be more involved. Then there’s the other projects like libstatgrab, they don’t even get a look in.
I blame the “day job”; if it’s not using my actual time it’s occuping my mind…
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