> 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
Just coming back from my holidays, I am sad to read this. But I also want to to thank Philip personally for the work he did for Astlinux, and especially the patience he had with me and my suggestions :-). I learned a lot. Michael http://www.mksolutions.info ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
