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Hi folks! The discussions of the last days have shown me clearly, that I can't implement my ideas WRT policy/QA anymore. It looks like most of the other developers (and most importantly, most of the other `old' developers) don't share my views anymore. I still think that the continuing growth of the project is a high risk for the stability of the project and also for the quality of the distribution. In such a situation, it is necessary to clarify the responsibilities of the individuals and to adjust the structure of the organization--unfortunately, this is done in a direction which I can't support anymore and I don't see a chance to fix this. (My attempts to clarify these issues have been interpreted as `me pressing my views of management over others' and `using my fiat power as policy manager to dictate developers.') Therefore, I've decided to leave the Debian project. This is a great step for me since I'm Debian developer since Aug 96 and was working as Policy Manager since Feb 97, and I spent quite a lot of my free time for the project. However, such a high time commitment requires a common vision with the other developers--something which has been lost lately. I've reflected this decision in the last days and it's irreversible now. Note, that this is a `technical' decision--there are no `personal' problems involved. I know that a lot of people have supported my actions and I want to use this place to say Thanks to them. After all, I'll want to stay a good friend of Debian, I'll continue to promote Debian to my friends, and I want to keep up the good cooperation with the Debian developers like it used to be in the past. Working for Debian has been a lot of fun to me and I've learned a lot. I want to thank your support and also for your participation on the project! Keep up the good work! Cheers, Christian Schwarz PS: The Linux community will not lose me! I'm planning to join Bruce' effort to set up a new base distribution. If Debian should decide to support the new base distribution, too, perhaps I could act as person of contact for Debian. - -- Christian Schwarz Do you know [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Debian GNU/Linux? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA http://www.debian.org http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAwUBNUroAE4c72jvRVaFAQHDnAQA2C1x80JxwMZ7wcrtQvOSsXF+ZUnI9Ub/ 7u7IZBwlPn3Jm84OOMAWDPbQPfghiHPpoKlq7WliWCjtXdWdzqA0N+StmfHcmhFI zJnu68vU3mMjGxhHiiVKDHU7R/euhyUR/bRVJIfeTUqvq7/vGUIEoi6tIkSpIKTH aZhxymUzkPc= =GcfE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]