On 11/15/13 18:33, Mark Mitchell wrote:
I'd very much like to thank all who are, have been, or will be
developers and maintainers of GCC. Of course, I'm particularly
grateful to those who reviewed my patches, fixed the bugs I
introduced, endured my nit-picking reviews of their patches, and so
forth. But, there are literally hundreds of you -- perhaps thousands
-- who have contributed, and I'd like to thank all of you; your
contributions and your community gave me the opportunity to have a
ton of fun.
And on behalf of the entire GCC community I'd like to thank you.
You played so many roles for GCC through the years. C++ co-maintainer,
release manager, steering committee member, global reviewer, project
leader, etc and excelled at each one.
In particular I'd like to call out your time as release manager. I
suspect some of the newer folks aren't aware of how desperately we
needed someone to step into that role. I had completely burnt out and
GCC was floundering with not even a plan for how the next release was
going to get out the door.
You volunteered for an often thankless job and did far more as a release
manager than I could ever have envisioned. You managed to herd a
diverse group of developers, often with conflicting agendas, & without
any true power over how they spent their time.
During your time as release manager you really became a leader for the
whole project and with your guidance GCC found continued success.
Even though I've been expecting this for a while, I'm still terribly sad
to see you go. As I'm sure you know, you're always welcome here in any
capacity you choose to engage!
Thanks again,
jeff
