I too, would like to thank Herbert for his great work and, Enrico and Jack, and all the other people involved in this project. Let's see what next year brings... :-)
Have a great new year, and c ya all in 2004, yup :-)!! On Wednesday 31 December 2003 15:27, Herbert Poetzl wrote: > Per Aspera Ad Astra! > > First I would like to thank everyone from the bottom > of my heart who contributed to Linux-VServer development. > We value every aid we get in striving for our ultimate > goal, to provide the best Virtual Private Server solution > for free (as in speech and beer ;) > > The future looks bright, and I'm confident, that the next > year will be an interesting one. Well, at least the last > quarter of this year was interesting for me ... ;) > > > A Three Month Retrospective > (or This Year for Linux-VServer) > > At the end of September after maintaining and rediffing > Vserver patches for over a year, I decided to take over > the leadership of Linux-VServer. > > A month later, Jack had returned and officially handed > over project leadership to me, the first 'brand new' > Linux-Vserver release was done on the 1st of November. > > Since then, we had four (4) stable releases, and nine > (9) development release, and Linux-Vserver was ported > to eleven (11) different architectures, and three non > mainline kernels. > > Last but not least the multitude of 'new' and 'improved' > userspace tools and scripts, aiding in vserver creation, > maintenance and testing. > > Maybe Linux-VServer development did happen a little too > fast, or maybe the community just wasn't used to this > kind of 'rapid evolution', anyway I think it was very > beneficial for all who joined and controlled the game. > > > And the Future? > > First I hope that ALL community members, especially those > who are still paralyzed by the high release frequency, > may speak up, and let us all know, what direction they > would like best, what path we shall take in the future. > > This doesn't mean that I have no plans for Linux-VServer, > this just means, that I would like to collect your ideas > and desires to lay a path which suits the community most. > > Second, I would like to integrate commercially interested > groups of the vserver community (the business people ;) > more deeply into the development process, and as a start, > I would like to form a platform, where hosting providers > can deposit, discuss and share their requirements, issues > and solutions regarding Linux-VServer in an appropriate > way they consider useful. > > And of course, development, development and development ... > > > I honestly hope, that You enjoyed the journey as much > I did, and that you will continue accompany me ... > > thanks for this year, > and good luck for the next, > Herbert > > > _______________________________________________ > Vserver mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver -- regards, Georges Toth _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver