Hi Michael, On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 15:03 -0400, Michael DeHaan 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
Sad to see you go, but understandable if you have found a new exiting way of showing people your talents :) I wish you all the best and hopefully we'll hear more from you in the future. So long, and thanks for all the fish^Wcode! -- Léon _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
