As some of you already know, today is my last day working for Samsung, and I no longer have a financial incentive to contribute to EFL.
One of my primary reasons for leaving this position is that it was tied to a continued requirement to work on EFL, and I've grown weary of doing that, so I won't be lingering as a community developer. Over the years there have been times when I've felt EFL was on the cusp of outgrowing its hobby project roots and making a shift towards grown-up standards (incorporating peer review, CI, a push for better documentation), followed by events that felt like major setbacks on that path. Some days it felt like we were reducing the insurmountable mountain of technical debt, and other days hopelessly watching it increase. EFL is currently in a situation where leadership is frequently at odds with the majority of contributors, and this leads to developers finding themselves worrying that work they've been paid to do (and maybe sometimes have even done well) will be unilaterally reverted, possibly with threats of commit right revocation. This makes contributing pointlessly stressful, and drives developers away. I hope I've left my small corners of the project a little better than I found them, and I thank you all for an opportunity to contribute. I've met some excellent people in my time here, and hope to keep in touch. I'll still be around on all the regular IRC servers, feel free to contact me*. Best of luck, Derek * Just not about EFL. Ever. Seriously. _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
