[ Thanks to Jeremy
Andrews for this link. ]
“Alan Cox posted a tiny patch to the lkml removing himself as
maintainer of a couple of older/defunct drivers, adding, ‘Update
other stuff because I will be away for a year.’ I scrambled for a
Welsh translator to see what I’d been missing in his diary, but
found no hints there. Fortunately a few minutes later he followed
up with an explanation:“‘At the end of September I’m off back to University on a years
sabbatical from Red Hat to study for an MBA. I’ve made the decision
that I’m basically going to vanish for the year so I can
concentrate on the course, and on the pet side project of learning
Welsh…’