Hi Sean, It is part of the Apache way that "merit never expires" and in my eyes just because you are not motivated to actively contribute any code at the moment does not mean that you have to go emeritus.
You are one of the key persons behind Mahout's success, a vital part of the team and the community and I would be perfectly fine with you staying a committer that "just" answers questions. That said if you still think that going emeritus is the right thing to do for you, I respect that decision, but nevertheless it feels like someone very valuable gets lost from the project. --sebastian On 12.10.2012 11:10, Sean Owen wrote: > All, I think that the pieces of Mahout that I have any working > knowledge of have reached roughly the state they're going to reach, as > reasonably stable and mature. I don't personally have plans or > motivation to update or add to it significantly in Mahout. Because of > this, and because I am short on the time to make changes here, I don't > intend to put any significant work into the project going forward. I > think it's right to reflect that by "going emeritus". I don't know if > that means something formally, other than to say I don't mind not > voting on project issues and having commit access since those things > should belong to active members only. We can mange any process > separately > > I would still like to stay on the mailing lists to answer questions of > course, which is most all I am doing anyway. So, not much really > changes except to perhaps set expectations (in JIRA, notably) > appropriately. > > Sean >
