Hi everyone, On Friday 15 April 2011 12:02:54 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Hello dear metalworkers, > > As some of you might know, I've been working on the hardware awareness in > the KDE community since my very first contribution in 2003. It all started > because as a user I wanted a couple of icons in Kicker and from there I > just kept digging lower in the stack. > > In parallel I've been working on other projects of the community, and some > of them deserve more attention from me, so it's time to reduce my > involvement in some areas, Solid being one of them. > > Don't be mistaken, I'm not running away screaming and leaving everyone in > wonder, but I needed to make choices and IMO it's the right time for me to > step down. Indeed, during the past year a lot have been achieved, and the > community has been growing. That's why lately, I've been looking into > someone to replace me and I'm glad I found someone so I could step down > responsibly. > > So I'm happy to announce that I'm passing the torch to our own Alex > Fiestas. You probably all know him, he's a great metalworker, and even > seems more active and lively than me at times. I'm confident he'll be able > to efficiently lead the community toward new adventures and getting our > frameworks and applications to cooperate with even more different type of > devices.
What to say, I'm indeed sad to see you step down (even though I somewhat know that you'll still be around for good ;) ), but I'm extremely happy to see Alex cover such an important position; besides being more than capable of holding it, he indeed deserves such a thing. And now let's keep on rocking! > > Also note that I'm not simply dumping the lot onto Alex, we've a transition > plan, so I'll still review patches and such. I'll just be slowly fading > away through the course of 2011. Longer term I'll still be around, and > I'll likely keep ranting on libsolid API changes from time to time > (libsolid API being rather stable it's not a huge amount of work for me > anyway). > > If you have any questions regarding this announcement, feel free to ask! > > Regards. -- ------------------- Dario Freddi KDE Developer GPG Key Signature: 511A9A3B
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