Re: [gentoo-dev] Dev retirement - Farewell message

[Ian Bloss]

prends soin de toi

On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 11:43 AM Sven Vermeulen <swift@g.o> wrote:

> On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:57:09PM +0200, José Fournier wrote:
> > I have been a bit far from Gentoo for a rather long time now. I joined
> > Gentoo in 2013 and I used to be a translator for the French language. At
> > this time, I had to become a developer in order to be able to submit my
> > work in the previous documentation system – but in reality I am not a
> > developer at all.  Nowadays, with the new wiki – which I can see grow
> > and improve day after day – it is no longer necessary for people like me
> > become a developer.
> >
> > At the beginning I could get a friendly and patient help from Sven
> > Vermeulen who introduced me and was my mentor for a while. I am very
> > grateful to him because it is not something obvious for someone who is
> > not a computer scientist to enter a world like the Gentoo Community and
> > Sven contributed a lot to make me feel at home.
> >
> > Recently, I decided to join the Fedora community to help as a translator
> > again. It a very different distribution and community but my previous
> > experience at Gentoo is very valuable. Arriving in this new home, I told
> > them all the good I think of the Gentoo distribution and of its people.
> > If there is one distribution which made me progress substantially in my
> > understanding of the Linux system, it is Gentoo, with no doubt.
> >
> > Before leaving your community, I want to wish you all the best and thank
> > you very much for your constant effort to make free and open source
> > software available to everyone.
> >
>
> Hi José,
>
> Although it's sad to see you leave, I feel it's more like a mutation than a
> farewell. I'm glad you continue to contribute to the open source/free
> software community, and wish you all the best within the Fedora community.
>
> With kind regards,
>
>         Sven Vermeulen
>         aka SwifT
>
>