As most of you know, both Weeve and gustavoz have either retired or announced their retirement from gentoo. That left sparc with no TLP lead. For the moment, I am assuming the position of sparc project lead. Sparc typically chooses its leads for one year terms starting at the first of the year. There is no reason I can see to change this, so early in 2008 sparc will again establish a lead or leads for the normal one year term.
The reaction from the user and developer communities has been most gratifying. Several developers have asked to help with sparc while we are sorting outrselves out, at least. So, It gives ma great pleasure to welcome jer, jmbsvicetto, jokey, and yoswink to our sparc project. (This gives us both joker and jokey; I am not sure of the significance of that.) Unfortunately, this places us in the majority of architecture teams: we currently do not have a release coordinator. Please bear with us while we sort that out. Also please bear with us on another matter. As you may or may not know, over the course of a bit under 190 weeks, gustavoz has averaged one commit every 3.24 hours. We do not commit to maintain this pace. However, if you have testing or keywording requests open against sparc and it seems that nothing is happening, please put a reminder onto the bug requesting it. It is quite possible that while we are sorting things out no one will have noticed the request at all. INFRA: Jason Wever pointed out to me that up to now, sun spoke directly with him or with Gustavo when talking about loaner systems for trade shows or about donating equipment. Jason suggests that "It might be worth asking infra to setup either an out of office message indicating that ppl wanting to talk to us should talk to you for sparc related stuffs or having them forward our email to you". I much prefer the first option: It is not appropriate to forward either Jason's or Gustavo's emails to me. Finally, yes, I know the sparc project page needs updating. I'll work on that over the next day or so unless someone wants to come forward and take care of it. :) Thanks for all the support. And especially thanks for all Jason and Gustavo have given to the project. Jason was my mentor, and I owe him a great deal. Regards, Ferris -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Developer, Gentoo Linux (Devrel, Sparc)
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