Hello Thorsten, hi GSL community, On Oct 25, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Dear gsl hackers, project leads of OOo - > > it is with mixed emotions, that I hereby resign from my role as a gsl > co-lead, in which I served since 2007. My hopes that Oracle would > join TDF have sadly not come to pass. > > As I believe in change, I will focus my energies on LibreOffice, > going forward.
I'm also with mixed emotions because of the circumstances of this divorce. The story of the divided communities saddens me a lot and so I'd rather not gain anything from the breakup. On the other hand I'm not gaining from it because ego-boosting titles mean almost nothing to me and I dislike politics especially in technical contexts. I enjoy solving technical problems and working toward a positive user experience with our product. > At the same time, I would like to personally say thank you to all of > the great people, that I was lucky enough to meet in my nine years > with OOo - I learned a lot from you, and many of you tried hard to > change the project from the inside. Ditto. > I propose Herbert Duerr as my successor - Herbert works on OOo even > longer than I do, and continues to do miracles to the font and layout > engines. I appreciate your endorsement and the compliment. I see my scope as being much broader though. My specialities are i18n, text, graphics, platform integration, algorithms, performance, debugging and backward compatibility. I return the compliment by admiring your marvelous work on the alpha outputdevice, the integration of third party code such as xpdf, agg or vigra and doing some other useful stuff ;-) Herbert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@gsl.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@gsl.openoffice.org
