Laying down the maintainer-hat

Niko Sams niko.sams at gmail.com
Sat Apr 10 06:20:31 UTC 2010


On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 00:05, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> first of all: Don't run away in fear, I'm not going to do it today or
> tomorrow. I'll keep wearing it until the 4.0 release and we've switched
> to git.
>
> However, I'm not going to do further releases after 4.0.0, I'm sorry.
> Right now doing anything kdevelop related (bug-squashing, bugfixing,
> code-writing, discussion and all the maintainer obligations) feels much
> more like work, then what I'm being paid for. Its really no fun anymore
> for me and I don't want to spend the little spare time I have with
> non-fun stuff.
>
> I'm not planning to vanish, in fact I hope to revive my motivation to
> code again by laying down the maintainer-burden. But we'll have to find
> somebody else who takes on the steering wheel and the maintainer job.
>
> Again, I'm sorry, but I need to do this for my own (mental) health.
>
That's bad news. Really.

But I understand that this is your spare time and a hobby should be fun - not
another work.


Niko




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