Thank you for all of your valuable contributions. It was a privilege to work with you and get to know you. Best of luck in your future endeavors!
Stephen On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:00 PM Derek Foreman < derek.foreman.sams...@gmail.com> wrote: > As some of you already know, today is my last day working for Samsung, and > I no longer have a financial incentive to contribute to EFL. > > One of my primary reasons for leaving this position is that it was tied to > a continued requirement to work on EFL, and I've grown weary of doing that, > so I won't be lingering as a community developer. > > Over the years there have been times when I've felt EFL was on the cusp of > outgrowing its hobby project roots and making a shift towards grown-up > standards (incorporating peer review, CI, a push for better documentation), > followed by events that felt like major setbacks on that path. Some days > it felt like we were reducing the insurmountable mountain of technical > debt, and other days hopelessly watching it increase. > > EFL is currently in a situation where leadership is frequently at odds with > the majority of contributors, and this leads to developers finding > themselves worrying that work they've been paid to do (and maybe sometimes > have even done well) will be unilaterally reverted, possibly with threats > of commit right revocation. This makes contributing pointlessly stressful, > and drives developers away. > > I hope I've left my small corners of the project a little better than I > found them, and I thank you all for an opportunity to contribute. I've met > some excellent people in my time here, and hope to keep in touch. I'll > still be around on all the regular IRC servers, feel free to contact me*. > > Best of luck, > Derek > > * Just not about EFL. Ever. Seriously. > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
