Resigning as a maintainer
Hello All,
Events and changes, more or less recent, both organisational and technical, have made me reconsider whether I should continue contributing, interacting with the community, and being a maintainer.
I've thought about it quite a bit, for quite some time now, and I see now that merely asking the question begs only one possible
answer: no.
As a consequence, I have resigned from my position as a maintainer. The other maintainers have been informed of my decision a few days ago now.
As for contributing, I don't see how the time I will regain from no longer being a maintainer, could be applied to bring in evolutions to Buildroot given the circumstances.
For the time being, I have no idea what will replace the many hours a week I was spending on Buildroot on my own time; maybe a future personal project will require that I use Buildroot again, but until then, I will no longer be an active contributor either.
I will still keep my entries in the DEVELOPERS file for a while, so that I can at least try and help fix the mess I leave behind me.
I am grateful to all the contributors, past and present, for the many years we've been all together working toward making Buildroot better, and building a great community; I've learned a lot along the ride. I wish you all the best with your continued use of Buildroot and your future contributions!
Peter, Thomas, Arnout, Romain: I wish you all the best in your future endeavours with Buildroot maintenance.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
P.S. To avoid any future confusion: this is my own personal position and decision, and has no connection to my professional activities that may be related to Buildroot.
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Hello Yann,
Quoted 2 lines · On Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:59:56 +0200 "Yann E. MORIN" <[email protected]>…
As a consequence, I have resigned from my position as a maintainer. The other maintainers have been informed of my decision a few days ago now.
I am obviously sad to see you go. You started contributing to Buildroot not long after I started contributing myself, so we spent quite some time together as active contributors, and I must say I've very much enjoyed your technical expertise, dedication and persistence. Of course, we've had disagreements, but I believe the kind of disagreements that help make things better, by finding better trade-offs and more balanced solutions, and simply by making everyone think about things from a different angle.
For all of that (and much more!): thanks a lot, for what you brought to the Buildroot project, but also for what you brought to me personally.
I wish you all the best in your next adventures, and hope that another open-source project will have the chance of counting you as one of its contributors.
Cheers!
Thomas
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Hi Yann
Quoted 7 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Hello All,
Events and changes, more or less recent, both organisational and technical, have made me reconsider whether I should continue contributing, interacting with the community, and being a maintainer.
Yes you should ;). I mean we really love your work and we think that you have a real value
in the community
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I've thought about it quite a bit, for quite some time now, and I see now that merely asking the question begs only one possible
answer: no.
Well, things in the project are changing and would be nice to have it under a foundation. There will be challenge in security in next years and I think that you can play your role here.
I really miss your comment in mailing list, even I'm not so active I always read review and how patch are processed
Michael
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As a consequence, I have resigned from my position as a maintainer. The other maintainers have been informed of my decision a few days ago now.
As for contributing, I don't see how the time I will regain from no longer being a maintainer, could be applied to bring in evolutions to Buildroot given the circumstances.
For the time being, I have no idea what will replace the many hours a week I was spending on Buildroot on my own time; maybe a future personal project will require that I use Buildroot again, but until then, I will no longer be an active contributor either.
I will still keep my entries in the DEVELOPERS file for a while, so that I can at least try and help fix the mess I leave behind me.
I am grateful to all the contributors, past and present, for the many years we've been all together working toward making Buildroot better, and building a great community; I've learned a lot along the ride. I wish you all the best with your continued use of Buildroot and your future contributions!
Peter, Thomas, Arnout, Romain: I wish you all the best in your future endeavours with Buildroot maintenance.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
P.S. To avoid any future confusion: this is my own personal position and decision, and has no connection to my professional activities that may be related to Buildroot.--
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Michael Nazzareno Trimarchi Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer M. +39 347 913 2170 [email protected] __________________________________ Amarula Solutions BV Joop Geesinkweg 125, 1114 AB, Amsterdam, NL T. +31 (0)85 111 9172 [email protected] www.amarulasolutions.com _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot
Hi Yann,
I'm sorry about your decision to leave Buildroot maintenance, even more so after having met and known you in person.
Your "All", in addition to the patch author, to whom you extended each of your reviews impressed me from the start, making it very clear what you mean for open source.
As a contributor, I thank you for the patience and your suggestions to make my patches mergeable, and I hope that, perhaps in the future, you might reconsider this decision.
Thanks and regards
Dario
Quoted 55 lines · Yann E. MORIN
Hello All,
Events and changes, more or less recent, both organisational and technical, have made me reconsider whether I should continue contributing, interacting with the community, and being a maintainer.
I've thought about it quite a bit, for quite some time now, and I see now that merely asking the question begs only one possible
answer: no.As a consequence, I have resigned from my position as a maintainer. The other maintainers have been informed of my decision a few days ago now.
As for contributing, I don't see how the time I will regain from no longer being a maintainer, could be applied to bring in evolutions to Buildroot given the circumstances.
For the time being, I have no idea what will replace the many hours a week I was spending on Buildroot on my own time; maybe a future personal project will require that I use Buildroot again, but until then, I will no longer be an active contributor either.
I will still keep my entries in the DEVELOPERS file for a while, so that I can at least try and help fix the mess I leave behind me.
I am grateful to all the contributors, past and present, for the many years we've been all together working toward making Buildroot better, and building a great community; I've learned a lot along the ride. I wish you all the best with your continued use of Buildroot and your future contributions!
Peter, Thomas, Arnout, Romain: I wish you all the best in your future endeavours with Buildroot maintenance.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
P.S. To avoid any future confusion: this is my own personal position and decision, and has no connection to my professional activities that may be related to Buildroot.--
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Dario Binacchi Senior Embedded Linux Developer [email protected] __________________________________ Amarula Solutions SRL Via Le Canevare 30, 31100 Treviso, Veneto, IT T. +39 042 243 5310 [email protected] www.amarulasolutions.com _______________________________________________ buildroot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.buildroot.org/mailman/listinfo/buildroot