On 07/14/2012 01:03 PM, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
Hi,
I'm stepping down as last remaining releng member.
It's not so much lack of time, it's more about lack of mental energy/interest.
Some other devs (and Gerardo) are already taking good care of archiso, Thomas
manages to patch up the releng scripts every time they break, and now there's
some interest in installer scripts again,
so I guess now is a good time for me to throw the towel.
I've been pondering doing this for already a long time, I even wrote a few
resignation mails at some points, but always discarded them before sending.
AIF is arguably an over-engineered piece of software, but only because it aimed to make
it "dead-easy" for users to do installations - even complicated ones - (and not
just interactive, but also automated ones) which I still think is a noble goal worth
pursuing, but we're too small of a team to maintain it, and me being the only one who
understands it doesn't help either. If it would have been written in python it could
have been more elegant and simple and might have had a very different life (with more
interest from the community/other devs).
I've definitely learned a lot from it, and have a bunch of ideas on how things
can be done better if one would like to pursue the goals that aif pursues, but
lack the interest in devoting more energy. Although I might be interested to
help out if others take the lead.
I would like to thank everyone who's ever contributed to Arch Linux in one way
or another (some of you guys are very dedicated),
There's also the guys at (open)suse who are doing lovely projects (mirrorbrain,
autoinst, openQA, ...) and who have tried to work with us,
I regret not being able to giving them the attention they deserve. (there's
the autobuilds, the openQA automatic tests, the iso feedback webapp, which are
by themselves useful but we haven't been able so far to tie them together. I
still think we can achieve the autobuild+autotest+autorelease system I know
some of us are dreaming of)
I also look back happily on speaking with everyone in the
AL community I've ever met, I never met somebody I didn't like.
My personal hilights being
Froscon 2009 (http://dieter.plaetinck.be/froscon_2009_afterthoughts -- check
the picture of Gerhard and I!) and Archcon 2010
(http://dieter.plaetinck.be/back_from_canada_archcon.html) which was not only
great for the Arch love, my trip to Canada was one of the best trips of my
life, and I got to meet Dusty, who I now consider a close personal friend.
good luck with AL and with your personal lives.
Dieter
¡Buena suerte!
--
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
\cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1
