>   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

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