Dear list, dear ribosome,
I am just a user of gentoo and this is my first post to this list. As
the traffic is very low, I guess I can afford to briefly express how
thankful I am for ribosomes work.
My perception may be skewed, but to me the work of ribosome has been
very visible and I guess it is fair to say that ribosome contributed
big time to the fact that gentoo became the distribution of choice for
biologist.
He was always quick in replying, writing new ebuilds and I have very
lively memories when he developed the ebuild for the staden package
such that it would also run on my sparc. Thank you very much Olivier
for your work and I hope that there will be others continuing.
cheers and all the best
Norman
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Norman Warthmann
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Dept. Molecular Biology
http://www.warthmann.com
On May 19, 2009, at 20:34 PM, Olivier Fisette wrote:
Hi,
I used to be active in the sci herd (mainly in the computational
biology and
chemistry projects), but the last year has seen very little activity
from me.
I stepped down from maintaining most of my packages recently since
it has
become obvious I no longer have the time and motivation necessary to
deserve
a developer position. I plan to retire this summer after finishing a
few long
overdue tasks.
I will still want to contribute, so maybe I can find someone to work
with as a
proxy maintainer for EMBOSS and related packages. Otherwise, I will
only be
around to fill bug reports and maybe contribute to the overlay from
time to
time.
I still love Gentoo, but I have invested myself in other personal and
professional projects and just no longer have enough free time to
want to
dedicate much of it to Gentoo, unfortunately.
With kind regards,
Olivier
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Olivier Fisette (ribosome)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Scientific applications
