Thanks for the great work Michael! Highly appreciated. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Lester M. <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Michael DeHaan <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> With apologies to Lynyrd Skynyrd, I am not actually leaving tomorrow. >> Though I must unfortunately say I am in fact leaving Cobbler-land and >> Red Hat to persue other exciting ventures in the land of software that I >> am interested in. I'll be around on and off throughout the end of the >> month. >> >> Folks, it has been an outstanding almost 4 years with Cobbler and >> everyone here. I hope you have had a lot of fun. Working with all of >> you online (and meeting folks at FudCONs, Tech Forums, BarCamps, and >> Summits) has been a fantastic experience that you just don't get most >> places. We've had people share Cobbler with LUGs and Conferences on >> multiple continents and even write magazine articles and chapters in >> books about us. Hundreds of folks have contributed ideas, code, >> testing, helped other users, helped market the project, and provided >> feedback. It is almost impossible to measure the userbase (since this >> is free software), but we know it is very very large and the world would >> most certainly implode without it (ok, perhaps not, but we can >> dream?). Everyone here on the mailing list helped make that possible >> by being a part of things. I can't say thanks to you enough. >> >> We've achieved a lot -- Now when someone starts a new Linux job, they >> don't have to write their own automation system -- they have one on the >> shelf that they know well, and maybe even helped build. Crazy >> complicated things like virtualization are hopefully simplified and >> annoying things like editing DHCP/DNS configurations and managing tons >> of repositories and kickstarts are hopefully made a lot faster and >> simpler. Folks have a simple place to store their deployment >> configuration that doesn't get in their way, and have lots of different >> ways to access it. >> >> As with many other open source management frameworks, we've shown that >> it's possible to collaborate across company boundaries and share >> infrastructure. This all can clearly carry on, and should also be the >> way more future projects like it are spawned and run ... by absorbing >> the good ideas of everyone in the user community, borrowing the features >> people have and like from their own in-house systems, and working with >> those users to build the software they want together. Collectively you >> are smarter than any one person or group, and that is why Cobbler >> works. The philosophy is very much "by sysadmins, for sysadmins" and >> is how we made sure Cobbler did the right thing and kept moving forward >> so fast. Except I am not really a sysadmin, I just play one on TV :) >> >> We have also shown, I hope, that simple software works, and there is a >> need for things that make things easy. We've kept our code simple on >> purpose -- to encourage any user to become a contributor. As time goes >> on, I expect things to get even more simpler and to see that >> contribution expand even farther. That is key to what we do. >> >> As I'm sure you are wondering, Cobbler will be left in good capable >> hands. It is being taken over by not one, but several folks -- >> including two frequent collaborators of mine -- Scott Henson and John >> Eckersberg from Red Hat IT. They'll be joined by Devan Goodwin (of >> Spacewalk/Satellite fame) and Alex Wood, also of Red Hat IT. They are >> all extremely sharp folks who care about Cobbler and community >> projects. We are meeting next week to get things transitioned over and >> put in proper gear -- and to figure out plans for future features and >> the 2.0.X and 2.2.X roadmaps. >> >> I'd call upon everyone here to be as awesome to them as they were to me, >> and continue to share the ideas you've had with them on this list and on >> places like #cobbler. Also, be sure to continue to help each other >> too, as you've been great at doing in the past. >> >> Again, thank you, and it has been an honor. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> >> Michael DeHaan >> >> ( contact info: michael.dehaan on gmail, http://michaeldehaan.net/ ) >> >> >> ==== >> >> Note 1 -- I'm not quite done yet, so I may still respond to a few more >> emails, bug reports and such :) >> >> Note 2 -- The official home of Cobbler remains at >> http://fedorahosted.org/cobbler and the source at >> git.fedorahosted.org. My personal github may not stay up to date >> (probably won't), so you if you have any external branches you might >> want to make sure they aren't forked off mine -- or otherwise that you >> frequently rebase off of git.fedorahosted.org. My copy will remain in >> place though. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> > > Michael, > > I nearly choked when I read this email! Please say it aint so! :'-(( > > Cobbler is the main reason I learned python over the last year and a half! > (Recently started learning python v3, still struggling with OOP though.) > > I have so many stories on how this software has saved the day at where I am > at. I started using cobbler at 0.98 back at the end of 2007, all the way to > 2.0.1! It has been 1 hell of a ride man! :-) > > I wish you very well on your next venture, you will be indeed remembered > and missed my friend. > > -- Lester M. > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > >
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