HI Paul, Thanks for leading the project during the past 18 months. You can tell from the features/bug fixes that opkg improved a lot. Regarding the future of opkg, I would like to put my name forward to step in and help maintain the project. I am really interested in the continued success of it, and will like to take a more active role on it. My employer agreed to let me spend time maintaining it, which should give me bandwidth to continue the work you have been doing.
I have been following the list for some time now, and have played with the code on my own. However, I do need to ramp my knowledge up, which I intend to do (probably start tackling some of the defects, and testing of 0.3). Thanks again for all your hard work, -Alejandro From: Paul Barker <p...@paulbarker.me.uk> To: opkg-devel <opkg-de...@googlegroups.com>, Cc: Yocto discussion list <yocto@yoctoproject.org>, OE Core <openembedded-c...@lists.openembedded.org> Date: 03/01/2015 09:14 AM Subject: [opkg-devel] Stepping back from opkg maintenance Sent by: opkg-de...@googlegroups.com Hi all, I had a change of circumstances at the beginning of January. Previously I was a full-time PhD student and maintaining opkg was my side project. Now I'm a full-time software engineer and finishing up my PhD thesis is my side project. I've been trying to find time to fit opkg in there as well but it's just not happening. I had at least hoped that I could get opkg to a v0.3.0 release before I had to step back from opkg development but as I haven't really made any commits to opkg in 2 months now I don't think it's reasonable to expect that I'll get this done any time soon. I'll try to keep an eye on the opkg mailing list and contribute with answers and suggestions when I can but I think someone else will have to take over as the maintainer of opkg. I'll do whatever I can to ensure as smooth transition if someone else wants to take up the job of moving opkg forward. I'd like to thank everyone that's contributed to opkg, whether by sending patches or just by reporting bugs or making suggestions. I've only been maintainer for around 18 months but I'd like to think we've made some good progress in that time and I hope that that can continue forwards under someone else's leadership. Once I've submitted my PhD thesis I'll hopefully find some time to get back involved with open source projects, whether that's further work on opkg or getting involved in a different project. Many thanks again, -- Paul Barker Email: p...@paulbarker.me.uk http://www.paulbarker.me.uk -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opkg-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to opkg-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. [attachment "signature.asc" deleted by Alejandro del Castillo/AUS/NIC] -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto