Re: Retiring

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi Christoph,

On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 at 21:57, Christoph Feck  wrote:

> Hello developers,
>
> my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
> related work, at least during the Corona times.
>
> I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
> responsibilities:
> - bug triaging
> - release service
> - KIconTheme maintainer
> - KPlotting maintainer
> - KWidgetAddons maintainer
>
> For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
> work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
> I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
> and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.
>
>
You will be sorely missed anyway, but I understand the toll these demanding
times have taken on you.
"Many thanks" will never be enough for the enormous amount of work you have
given us over the years, replacing you will be really hard, we all lack
your experience and knowledge of our bug collection.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Please keep safe and healthy and I would love to see you back in the
bugsquad in better times.

Regards, Myriam
-- 
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https://www.kde.org
Protect your freedom and support the work of the FSFE:
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Re: Retiring

[Martin Floeser]

Am 2021-01-13 21:57, schrieb Christoph Feck:

Hello developers,

my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
related work, at least during the Corona times.


Thanks for all your work! It has always been a pleasure working together 
with you.


I can totally understand how challenging and time demanding the current 
situation around Covid is for you. I myself also had plans to start 
coding for KDE again in spring of 2020 as I imagined that I would have 
more time by then. Covid and the closing of day-care centers made this 
totally impossible. So I hope for you the same as I hope for myself: to 
find some time for KDE once this mess is over!


All the best
Martin

Re: Retiring

[Ahmad Samir]

On 13/01/2021 22:57, Christoph Feck wrote:

Hello developers,

my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
related work, at least during the Corona times.

I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
responsibilities:
- bug triaging
- release service
- KIconTheme maintainer
- KPlotting maintainer
- KWidgetAddons maintainer

For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.

Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.

For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
relevant work here in the recent years...

I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.

Thank you,
Christoph



This is sad, but I guess life happens and things change and time constraints 
change too.

Thanks a lot for your work on KDE, you are the oldest bugzilla gate keeper, looking at all those 
reports (any ones you didn't have a look at? :D).


(Actually you gave my account elevated privileges when you saw me regularly commenting on bugs a 
couple of years ago, so thanks for that too, it was a very appreciated leg up :))


I wish you and yours the best and hope to still see you around; when time permits and there is an 
itchy bug that bothers you enough to warrant a patch to fix it :)



--
Ahmad Samir

Re: Retiring

[Boris Egorov]

Hi Christoph,

Thank you for your work!

I recently found my first few patches I've sent to KDE through you.
I was not so active later, but these first steps were quite easy and
pleasant thanks to you.

Good luck with all your activities!

чт, 14 янв. 2021 г. в 03:57, Christoph Feck :

> Hello developers,
>
> my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
> related work, at least during the Corona times.
>
> I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
> responsibilities:
> - bug triaging
> - release service
> - KIconTheme maintainer
> - KPlotting maintainer
> - KWidgetAddons maintainer
>
> For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
> work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
> I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
> and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.
>
> Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
> isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
> volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.
>
> For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
> must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
> see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
> the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
> relevant work here in the recent years...
>
> I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
> keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.
>
> Thank you,
> Christoph
>


-- 
Best regards,
Boris Egorov

Re: Retiring

[Christoph Cullmann]

On 2021-01-13 23:05, Milian Wolff wrote:

On Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021 21:57:13 CET Christoph Feck wrote:

Hello developers,

my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
related work, at least during the Corona times.

I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
responsibilities:
- bug triaging
- release service
- KIconTheme maintainer
- KPlotting maintainer
- KWidgetAddons maintainer

For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.

Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.

For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
relevant work here in the recent years...

I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.


Thanks a lot Christoph for all your work! As I myself has had the 
pleasure of
quasi-retiring but never quite leaving - may the same happen to you ;-) 
I.e.:

Take your well earned break and come back whenever it suites you again!


Really thanks a lot for all the work ;=)
I can't even count the bugs you worked on alone for KTextEditor/Kate/...

There was always another Christoph faster than me ;=)

Greetings
Christoph

--
Ignorance is bliss...
https://cullmann.io | https://kate-editor.org

Re: Retiring

[Kevin Funk]

On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 23:05:50 CET Milian Wolff wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021 21:57:13 CET Christoph Feck wrote:
> > Hello developers,
> > 
> > my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
> > related work, at least during the Corona times.
> > 
> > I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
> > responsibilities:
> > - bug triaging
> > - release service
> > - KIconTheme maintainer
> > - KPlotting maintainer
> > - KWidgetAddons maintainer
> > 
> > For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
> > work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
> > I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
> > and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.
> > 
> > Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
> > isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
> > volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.
> > 
> > For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
> > must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
> > see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
> > the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
> > relevant work here in the recent years...
> > 
> > I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
> > keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.
> 
> Thanks a lot Christoph for all your work! As I myself has had the pleasure
> of quasi-retiring but never quite leaving - may the same happen to you ;-)
> I.e.: Take your well earned break and come back whenever it suites you
> again!

+100. I can relate to that :)

Thanks for all the enduring work you did for KDE, Christoph! Come back when 
time permits it again!

Cheers,
Kevin


> Cheers


-- 
Kevin Funk | kf...@kde.org | http://kfunk.org

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Re: Retiring

[Nate Graham]

On 1/13/21 1:57 PM, Christoph Feck wrote:

Hello developers,

my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
related work, at least during the Corona times.

I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
responsibilities:
- bug triaging
- release service
- KIconTheme maintainer
- KPlotting maintainer
- KWidgetAddons maintainer

For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.

Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.

For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
relevant work here in the recent years...

I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.


Thank you very much Christoph for your tireless work for KDE. I have 
learned a great deal from you, and I hope my bug triaging efforts are 
able to compare with yours!


Nate

Re: Retiring

[Milian Wolff]

On Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2021 21:57:13 CET Christoph Feck wrote:
> Hello developers,
> 
> my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
> related work, at least during the Corona times.
> 
> I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
> responsibilities:
> - bug triaging
> - release service
> - KIconTheme maintainer
> - KPlotting maintainer
> - KWidgetAddons maintainer
> 
> For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
> work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
> I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
> and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.
> 
> Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
> isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
> volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.
> 
> For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
> must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
> see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
> the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
> relevant work here in the recent years...
> 
> I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
> keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.

Thanks a lot Christoph for all your work! As I myself has had the pleasure of 
quasi-retiring but never quite leaving - may the same happen to you ;-) I.e.: 
Take your well earned break and come back whenever it suites you again!

Cheers

-- 
Milian Wolff
m...@milianw.de
http://milianw.de

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Re: Retiring

[Kai Uwe Broulik]

Hi Christoph,

thank you so much for enduring work!

I sometimes imagined me calling you on the phone Sunday morning at 5 am 
asking about some bug report that I vaguely remembered seeing but 
couldn't find and you immediately knew what I was talking about, spat 
out the 6 digit bug report number, and hung up ;)


Hope to sometimes see you around, still!

Cheers
Kai Uwe

Retiring

[Christoph Feck]

Hello developers,

my personal situation allows for much less time for KDE
related work, at least during the Corona times.

I would like to retire as soon as possible from these
responsibilities:
- bug triaging
- release service
- KIconTheme maintainer
- KPlotting maintainer
- KWidgetAddons maintainer

For bugzilla, I see many new and old contributors doing awesome
work with triaging, so departing here shouldn't be a big issue.
I hope someone can continue checking responses to NEEDINFO bugs
and REPORTED bugs that didn't get a reply within about two weeks.

Regarding the release service work, I have made sure the load
isn't all back to Albert. For future release work, Heiko Becker
volunteered to help, but maybe another hand would be awesome, too.

For the frameworks modules, I initially assumed each module
must have a separate maintainer, so I volunteered. Today I
see many modules still just community-maintained, and I hope
the community can take over maintainance. Not that I did any
relevant work here in the recent years...

I might eventually continue to prepare some patches, so please
keep all my accounts intact, but only de-list me as the maintainer.

Thank you,
Christoph

Re: Retiring and testament

[Alex Merry]

On 2014-09-09 16:41, Kevin Ottens wrote:
Now, let's get to the subject of this email: effective immediately I 
will
be stepping back from KDE Frameworks to refocus my energy elsewhere in 
KDE.
Some of you probably saw this coming as I was already less active over 
the

past few weeks.


Thank you for all the time and enegy you've put into getting Frameworks 
to this point. It wouldn't have happened without you and David :-)


Alex

Re: Retiring and testament

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 09 September 2014 17:41:59 Kevin Ottens wrote:
 You will still see me around of course. I'm retiring from KDE Frameworks,
 not  from KDE. I just want to focus mainly on Zanshin and some of my
 community work (french promo, manifesto, e.V.). Because of my other
 involvements you'll probably see me sending patches from time to time to
 KF5, just don't expect me to monitor closely what's going on or to drive
 anything anymore.

Hi Kevin

Thank you for so much work you've done and for leading the KF5 effort.

 Also, I am actively discussing with Kevin Krammer to pass him the torch. I 
 guess most of you know him. He will be a good replacement since he has a
 good  view on the whole stack. Not to neglect the fact we both have the
 same first name so you feel right at home.

Yeah, thanks for making the transition easy! The first name helps!

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
   Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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Retiring and testament

[Kevin Ottens]

Hello dear KDE contributors,

I'm sending this from Akademy 2014. Our KDE Frameworks BoF is now over, as 
usual we did great progress:
https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Meetings/201409Akademy

Also I put in place the goals for the months to come before coming:
https://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Epics

It might require updating based on the minutes of the meeting.

Now, let's get to the subject of this email: effective immediately I will 
be stepping back from KDE Frameworks to refocus my energy elsewhere in KDE. 
Some of you probably saw this coming as I was already less active over the 
past few weeks.

I have been working on kdelibs (and now KDE Frameworks) related topics almost 
since the beginning of my involvement in KDE. I came to realize that I needed 
to do different things now. After ten years, and although I love the project, 
I just don't have enough energy to keep going on my spare time.

You will still see me around of course. I'm retiring from KDE Frameworks, not 
from KDE. I just want to focus mainly on Zanshin and some of my community work 
(french promo, manifesto, e.V.). Because of my other involvements you'll 
probably see me sending patches from time to time to KF5, just don't expect me 
to monitor closely what's going on or to drive anything anymore.

Also, I am actively discussing with Kevin Krammer to pass him the torch. I 
guess most of you know him. He will be a good replacement since he has a good 
view on the whole stack. Not to neglect the fact we both have the same first 
name so you feel right at home. :-)

I'm a bit emotional of letting that go of course, but I'm retiring from KDE 
Frameworks knowing our community brought it in a very good place. It made the 
leap to a completely new arena which opens plenty of opportunities. If we want 
to reap the fruits I'd like to see the following things happen in the next few 
months:
 * kdepimlibs and akonadi fully transitioned to KF5 (latest in early 2015, our 
application ecosystem need it to strive in the KF5 world);
 * a clear developer story for third parties wanting to use parts of KF5 (they 
are one of the main motive for the modularization, it should be easy for them 
to use the result of our efforts);
 * a stronger take on quality, especially more tooling support on reviews and 
tests even on non-Linux systems (we're still dropping the ball often I think, 
our craft needs to be perfected);
 * a very good documentation (the apidox and book are an amazing start 
already!);
 * the closing of k-f-d in favor of k-c-d again (see kde-community for the 
reasons);
 * emails from reviewboard on a list similar to kde-commits and not on regular 
mailing lists anymore (this constant noise prevents higher level thinking on 
our lists IMHO);
 * more reaching out to qt-interest (making it easy to use KF5 for third 
parties is nice... making them aware of it is even better).

Take the points above as my testament. I believe they are essential for the 
broader success of KF5 and ultimately for the success of our community. I hope 
that in your capable hands I will see those wishes fulfilled.

Keep having fun with our collective creation! And don't hesitate to still send 
me direct emails if you're in need of an extra opinion or advice, I'll always 
have some time to answer my fellow gearheads.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

KDAB - proud supporter of KDE, http://www.kdab.com

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