Caryatis,
That is too bad you are leaving so soon, but congrats on the new business
I was trying to push for you to get SVN access due to the large number of updates you were working on and submitting (mostly to just save me the work of submitting them : P) , but I guess you won't need that anymore. I was excited to see someone finally working on spell effects again and the AA work you mention is something I am sure everyone will love. I think new AAs will help push people toward the newer clients even more, which is a great thing. I am not really looking forward to doing the diffs and reading through all of the changes you made, but I am excited for them to go on the SVN if they are ready for it.
Either way, thanks for what you have done for the time you were working on your server, and thanks for sharing with the community. So many servers make great changes and never bother to share them, so it is refreshing to see another dev/admin giving back to the community that made their server possible
Some servers may think that by keeping their good changes and fixes secret, they are making their server more popular. I don't think they realize that by doing that, they are weakening the community, which is ultimately worse for their server in the end. Not to mention that it makes staying current with the SVN that much more work to add custom code back in manually each time and properly test.
Oh, one question; On your site, you mention "customized AAs" in your AA list, and I was wondering if that means customized as in not EQLive-like or customized as in not on the SVN? We can only put EQLive-like AAs on the SVN, which is why I ask.