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

[Sven Vermeulen]

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