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From: Chema Alonso <nimiux@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dev retirement - Farewell message
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 09:48:05
Message-Id: 20160503094753.GA26591@woodpecker.gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Dev retirement - Farewell message by "José Fournier"
1 My best wishes for this new stage.
2
3 Regards
4
5 On Sun, May 01, 2016 at 04:57:09PM +0200, Jos?? Fournier wrote:
6 > Hi everybody,
7 >
8 > I have been a bit far from Gentoo for a rather long time now. I joined
9 > Gentoo in 2013 and I used to be a translator for the French language. At
10 > this time, I had to become a developer in order to be able to submit my
11 > work in the previous documentation system ??? but in reality I am not a
12 > developer at all. Nowadays, with the new wiki ??? which I can see grow
13 > and improve day after day ??? it is no longer necessary for people like me
14 > become a developer.
15 >
16 > At the beginning I could get a friendly and patient help from Sven
17 > Vermeulen who introduced me and was my mentor for a while. I am very
18 > grateful to him because it is not something obvious for someone who is
19 > not a computer scientist to enter a world like the Gentoo Community and
20 > Sven contributed a lot to make me feel at home.
21 >
22 > Recently, I decided to join the Fedora community to help as a translator
23 > again. It a very different distribution and community but my previous
24 > experience at Gentoo is very valuable. Arriving in this new home, I told
25 > them all the good I think of the Gentoo distribution and of its people.
26 > If there is one distribution which made me progress substantially in my
27 > understanding of the Linux system, it is Gentoo, with no doubt.
28 >
29 > Before leaving your community, I want to wish you all the best and thank
30 > you very much for your constant effort to make free and open source
31 > software available to everyone.
32 >
33 > With kind regards
34 >
35 > Jos??
36 >
37 >