On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 19:22 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote: > Hi all, > > This is slightly off-topic, but as it has an impact for the team, I > feel it's important to share this.
Thanks for letting us all know! > I'm leaving the Boosters team and moving to another team inside SUSE, > where I won't be working on something directly related to openSUSE (I'll > probably blog about what I'll be doing at some point, give me some time > :-)). It's sad on one hand to see less of you.. on the other hand: All the best for you Vincent! > This has some immediate side-effect: I'm now a purely community player > for openSUSE too! No, you won't get rid of me, sorry :-) This obviously > means I will have less time for openSUSE in general, and the GNOME team > more specifically. But I don't think this is going to be much of an > issue. Knowing that we can always fall back on you is a good thing. YOU did do a lot of good stuff, which empowered us to do what we do (osc collab!) Thanks for all that! And thanks for the ever motivational speeches of yours! > In the past 1-2 years, we've managed to build a strong team. Of course, > I've been doing a lot, but so have been Dominique, Bjørn, Malcolm, Atri > and many others (sorry, I'm not even trying to name everyone, I'd forget > too many people)! We've also been doing several steps to make sure we > really work as a team: we reorganized our workflow to allow more reviews > of all changes going in, we've created a gnome-maintainers group on OBS > to share the super-powers, etc. More reviewers are surely needed; already in the past I invited Darix to help out once in a while. His experience in packaging has always given good hints and tricks. We'll expand that further in our own team of course! > I've been away a few times for several weeks in the past year, and the > team did an amazing job without me. It was no surprise to me, and that > should be enough to kill any doubts people might have about the GNOME > team! No doubt :) you will miss us anyway and run back to us... We'll receive you with open arms! (as we do any other 'guest') > It turns out that this is also happening at a point in time where GNOME > is rather solid in Factory, and where 12.2 is delayed for a few months. > This means we even have some quiet time to discuss other ways we can > reorganize the team for 12.3, if we feel a need for it. I've no specific > thing in minds, except maybe giving review powers to even more people? Indeed, we have a rather solid GNOME experience in Factory. Let's make sure to keep this level up. Testers and good bug reporters, as well as bug fixers, are welcome :) > I'll probably be a bit less active than I'd like in the next few weeks, > as I have a lot to learn and discover right now. But I'll come back and > contribute more again soon after :-) And I'm still around on irc anyway, > willing to answer questions, help people and chit-chat! THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WORK VINCENT! And once more: All the best for your career choices! Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
