Le lundi 16 octobre 2017 à 20:52 +0200, Bjørn Lie a écrit :
Hi Community!
For the wast majority of you who have no idea of who I am, I've been one of your GNOME maintainers for quite some years (at least 5 but closer to 10 I belive), but have for the most part stayed out of the day to day traffic on your favorite mailing lists.
This is a notice of me stepping down as maintainer for openSUSE. I'm mainly a GNOME maintainer, but I've been known to put my grubby fingers in quite a few packages outside of GNOME.
For some time now I've been doing maintenance/packaging not because I had fun doing it, but out of sense of duty/guilt. I have now reached a point where I just can't in good conscience go on, and hence this notice of goodbye.
Reason for doing this publicly and not just fade silently out the back is that I hope this way I can wrestle up some new maintainers for GNOME in particular. Leaving Dominique Leuenberger (DimStar) as the sole maintainer for the ~650 or so packages we maintain is not sustainable nor healthy, as it will probably burn him out like it has me.
Please note that this is not a "rage quit", but something that has been brewing for years, and had I not had such respect from and for and quite frankly genuine friendship with my co-maintainer DimStar, I'd left a long time ago.
Over time I've realized that what I want out of openSUSE and what the majority of it's community (developers/packagers/users/SUSE) wants, do not align so I've come to the conclusion it's better for everyone if I step down. - This is further backed up by me for quite some time being unsubscribed from all mailing-lists, all bug-report emails disabled and likewise all email notifications from OBS, but still feel annoyed all the time, and I keep seeing changes I disagree with being pushed into openSUSE. Aka: it's not "you", it's me ;-).
I wish the best for openSUSE in the future, and since I "know" the tooling (OBS/openQA) that makes this community/distro work is the best there is hands down, I'm confident this will continue to happen without me, most likely even better.
Thankfully most of the packages I maintain are co-maintained, so I'll not have to make sure there are people ready to take over, but I will make a special note out of gstreamers and poppler, as these have been my "babies" for a few years - These packages are so central to the desktop experience that they deserve a dedicated person maintaining them. Please file maintainer req via obs for those. (Also everyone please queue up to become a GNOME maintainer, as we are really understaffed there).
An other "project" I leave behind is the removal of webkitgtk - I had hoped to stay on until we could remove that one before leaving, but at least I was around to see webkitgtk3 get nuked (only 4 years after upstream declared it dead).
In any case, goodbye and best of luck going forward!
With my SLE Desktop release manager hat, a big THANK YOU for all the time and efforts you spent on making GNOME awesome on openSUSE (and on SLE ;) Take care.. -- Frederic Crozat Enterprise Desktop Release Manager SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org