All the very best on your new role. Thank you a lot for your efforts in running openSUSE GNOME for so long. I personally learned a lot about engaging people in a community from you :-)
Sankar On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Vincent Untz <[email protected]> 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. > > 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 > :-)). > > 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. > > 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. > > 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! > > 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? > > 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! > > Cheers, > > Vincent > > -- > Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected] > -- Sankar P http://psankar.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] To contact the owner, e-mail: [email protected]
