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Hello! |
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I have become increasingly unreliable concerning my activities within |
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the Gentoo developer community during the last year. Now I finally |
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arrived at the point where I consider the only reasonable solution to |
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leave the Gentoo team. The final drop has been the fact that I |
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promised Sebastian the next layman release. But week after week I did |
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not find the time to work on the next version thus failing the |
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promise. |
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With my commercial endeavours within the Kolab and Horde communities |
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thriving I have to be realistic: The workload won't suddenly fade |
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during the next year(s?). I would have liked to include Gentoo into |
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the portfolio I get paid for but I was unable to achieve that. Chances |
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are that I would be even less responsive concerning Gentoo in the |
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future. |
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This is no easy decision for me as I do like Gentoo and feel strongly |
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for some of the stuff I did for Gentoo. It is not easy to drop these |
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projects. I would have made the choice earlier in order to clarify the |
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situation if I would not care that much about Gentoo. But I left |
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people with an unresponsive maintainer this way and I'm sorry for |
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that. |
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There is one final thing I'd like to leave as a parting gift to the |
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Gentoo community. |
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As some of you may know I wrote a german book about Gentoo. When I |
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initially started the project I asked the publisher if there would be |
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any possibility to produce a free version of that book, too. Writing |
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about free software feels strange to me if the things I write are not |
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free. But books are not software and I had to accept the commercial |
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realities of the project at that time. |
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But I mentioned above that things for my little one-man-company are |
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going well and so I did buy the rights to my book back. It has now |
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been published under a free license and is available for download at |
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https://www.opensourcepress.de/openbooks.html |
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The latex source for the book is here: |
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http://github.com/wrobel/book-gentoo/tree |
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Time to say goodbye. Sigh... |
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Gunnar Wrobel Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: wrobel@g.o |
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WWW: http://www.gunnarwrobel.de |
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IRC: #gentoo-web at freenode.org |
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