Hello all, Yesterday I have retired from Debian. I have explained my reasons for that decision in detail on the debian-private mailing list and I will not repeat them in detail here. The main, but not the only, reason is that my involvement in the project was no longer "fun" because of the continued personal abuse I have been getting on various mailing lists from a certain person. Many of you may not have seen much of that recently, but if you check the archives for the debian-project list for the end of last month you will see what I mean. I would like to stress that my retirement has nothing to do with my work on the D-I project. As I do still enjoy working on D-I, I also do not plan to leave completely, but rather go back to working on it as an outside contributor. I've already created a -guest account on alioth and given myself commit access for that (I hope the other project admins don't mind ;-) However, without being a member of the project, it is impossible to continue as D-I Release Manager and my main regret is that my retirement does leave D-I without an RM so suddenly. So, the next question has to be: is there anybody interested in taking over that role? I think asking on the debian-boot list first is the right thing to do. I have of course already spoken with Joey, and he would very much prefer *not* to have to take over as RM again. I will of course assist any new RM as much as possible, especially to get started and I expect Joey will do the same where needed. As you all probably know, D-I is complex enough that it really needs an RM. As my technical skills are nothing special, the fact that I could do it means that it is certainly not an impossible job, although it certainly does require a fair commitment. For myself, I expect I will spend less time on general things, including installation reports, but more on specific issues (i.e, real hacking); I also hope to spend more time on the installation guide. Cheers, FJP
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