Philip,
As a mere end user of AstLinux, I'm unaware of the behind-the-scenes
inter-workings of the contributors. Regardless, I'm saddened by this
development.
Thank you for the contributions you have brought to AstLinux over the years and
for the support you have provided to those of us who sometimes find this a bit
mystifying.
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: "Philip Prindeville" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 12:34am
To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <[email protected]>
Subject: [Astlinux-users] Stepping aside
Hello all,
After making major contributions to this project for 2-1/2 years now, and
recently trying to establish some sorts of best practices for development
(regular conference calls, code reviews, guidelines for commits and migrating
patches into release branches, etc) and getting no traction from the rest of
the contributors, I find it unrewarding to continue in a vacuum.
I've come to this decision after several months of stalemate in efforts to
ameliorate our processes.
I'll be staying on contributing the occasional bug fix as I need for my own
circumstances, but I'll be shifting the bulk of my attention to other projects
where collaboration flows a little more organically. Someone else will need to
make the major development contributions if the project is to maintain momentum.
I've tried over the last year and a half to find outside talent to bolster our
development effort, but the specificity of the project means it has a narrow
appeal, and hence a small audience from which to recruit.
I thank the users for their many expressions of appreciation.
I'll be present in the community as a user, so I'll still be around in one form
or another.
-Philip
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