[Kde-pim] Stepping down as KMail maintainer

Thomas McGuire mcguire at kde.org
Fri Jul 30 10:42:25 BST 2010


Hi,

On Friday 30 July 2010 11:17:32 Mario Fux wrote:
> Am Freitag 30 Juli 2010, 00:36:15 schrieb Thomas McGuire:
> > hereby I step down as the KMail maintainer. The reason for that is
> > simple: I'm simply not motivated at all anymore, the usual maintainer
> > tasks just feel like a chore. In my free time, I'd rather do something I
> > have fun at and where I learn new things, and that is not the case
> > anymore after maintaining KMail for 2 years.
> > 
> > In practice, I don't know yet how much my involvement will change. I've
> > already stopped reading the bugs mailinglist. I'll however of course stay
> > around on the mailinglist and on IRC, and probably continue doing some of
> > the other things like looking at some review requests. And I'll still do
> > the occasional commit, especially when I work on PIM during work time.
> > 
> > Not much more to say on this I guess.
> 
> There's always something to say ;-):
> Thx a lot for all of your work from a dedicated Kmail user (since years).
> I hope you'll find something new which makes and gives you fun.
> 
> Question to the PIMsters: Does this mean that Kmail is not actually
> unmaintained?

KMail is still very much in active development. In fact, KMail+Akonadi get 
more commits right now than I've ever seen before. So there is no need to 
worry about the future, there are enough people working on KMail, mainly from 
KDAB.

Regards,
Thomas
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