On 14 July 2012 22:03, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm stepping down as last remaining releng member. > It's not so much lack of time, it's more about lack of mental energy/interest. > Some other devs (and Gerardo) are already taking good care of archiso, Thomas > manages to patch up the releng scripts every time they break, and now there's > some interest in installer scripts again, > so I guess now is a good time for me to throw the towel. > I've been pondering doing this for already a long time, I even wrote a few > resignation mails at some points, but always discarded them before sending. > > AIF is arguably an over-engineered piece of software, but only because it > aimed to make it "dead-easy" for users to do installations - even complicated > ones - (and not just interactive, but also automated ones) which I still > think is a noble goal worth pursuing, but we're too small of a team to > maintain it, and me being the only one who understands it doesn't help > either. If it would have been written in python it could have been more > elegant and simple and might have had a very different life (with more > interest from the community/other devs). > I've definitely learned a lot from it, and have a bunch of ideas on how > things can be done better if one would like to pursue the goals that aif > pursues, but lack the interest in devoting more energy. Although I might be > interested to help out if others take the lead. > > I would like to thank everyone who's ever contributed to Arch Linux in one > way or another (some of you guys are very dedicated), > There's also the guys at (open)suse who are doing lovely projects > (mirrorbrain, autoinst, openQA, ...) and who have tried to work with us, > I regret not being able to giving them the attention they deserve. (there's > the autobuilds, the openQA automatic tests, the iso feedback webapp, which > are by themselves useful but we haven't been able so far to tie them > together. I still think we can achieve the autobuild+autotest+autorelease > system I know some of us are dreaming of) > > I also look back happily on speaking with everyone in the > AL community I've ever met, I never met somebody I didn't like. > My personal hilights being > Froscon 2009 (http://dieter.plaetinck.be/froscon_2009_afterthoughts -- check > the picture of Gerhard and I!) and Archcon 2010 > (http://dieter.plaetinck.be/back_from_canada_archcon.html) which was not only > great for the Arch love, my trip to Canada was one of the best trips of my > life, and I got to meet Dusty, who I now consider a close personal friend. > > good luck with AL and with your personal lives. > > Dieter
Yes, thanks for all your work Dieter. You've been there for some cool stuff from as far back as I can remember. Take care of yourself, and good luck with RL. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
