Time to say goodbye...
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Hi folks!
The discussions of the last days have shown me clearly, that I can't
implement my ideas WRT policy/QA anymore. It looks like most of the
other developers (and most importantly, most of the other `old'
developers) don't share my views anymore.
I still think that the continuing growth of the project is a high risk
for the stability of the project and also for the quality of the
distribution. In such a situation, it is necessary to clarify the
responsibilities of the individuals and to adjust the structure of the
organization--unfortunately, this is done in a direction which I can't
support anymore and I don't see a chance to fix this. (My attempts to
clarify these issues have been interpreted as `me pressing my views of
management over others' and `using my fiat power as policy manager to
dictate developers.')
Therefore, I've decided to leave the Debian project. This is a great
step for me since I'm Debian developer since Aug 96 and was working as
Policy Manager since Feb 97, and I spent quite a lot of my free time
for the project. However, such a high time commitment requires a
common vision with the other developers--something which has been lost
lately. I've reflected this decision in the last days and it's
irreversible now.
Note, that this is a `technical' decision--there are no `personal'
problems involved. I know that a lot of people have supported my
actions and I want to use this place to say Thanks to them. After
all, I'll want to stay a good friend of Debian, I'll continue to
promote Debian to my friends, and I want to keep up the good
cooperation with the Debian developers like it used to be in the past.
Working for Debian has been a lot of fun to me and I've learned a lot.
I want to thank your support and also for your participation on the
project! Keep up the good work!
Cheers,
Christian Schwarz
PS: The Linux community will not lose me! I'm planning to join Bruce'
effort to set up a new base distribution. If Debian should decide to
support the new base distribution, too, perhaps I could act as person
of contact for Debian.
- -- Christian Schwarz
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