Waving goodbye, and presenting Minirok

[Jeff Mitchell]

Adeodato Simó wrote:
> Hello guys. (Please CC me on replies, if any.)
>
> For those of you who don't know me, I'm the Debian packager of Amarok,
> and I contributed some patches as well back in the eaaarly days.
>
> I just wanted, now that I'm leaving Amarok for something else, to drop a
> note giving a big THANK YOU to you all for this terrific player that has
> so well served me for more than three years. I will also take care of
> finding a good new maintainer for the Debian package.
>
> As for the second part of this mail, I thought it was appropriate to let
> you know that I've written a small player in Python that mimics Amarok
> in many ways, which I've named Minirok. I hope you don't find the name
> inappropriate; the intent is to make explicit that it inherits a lot
> from Amarok (including the interface and look and feel), like if it was
> its little brother. I'm indebted to you for making Amarok free software,
> thus empowering me to freely steal design and concepts from it. I credit
> you in the "Thanks to" tab of the About dialog.
>   
Gee, why not just use Quod Libet?  :-)

In all seriousness, thanks for getting us into the hands of Debian users 
for the last three years.  What are you moving on to?  Will you still be 
using Amarok?!!?!?  8-O

Take care, and don't totally disappear somewhere...

--Jeff