Leaving the project

Michał Piotrowski mkkp4x4 at gmail.com
Tue May 20 13:21:26 UTC 2014


Hi,

Thank you for all your hard work on systemd integration!

2014-05-20 15:04 GMT+02:00 "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg at gmail.com>:
> Greetings yo all
>
> With regrets I must say I feel we have grown so fat we are about to collapse
> under our own weight but instead of properly start dealing with that within
> the project, people chose to ignore that fact but instead chose to force
> some future vision of RHEL 8 upon the project under the names of .next,
> products and wg's and constantly attack the solid ground what our
> foundations have stood for and their meaning all those years and embark on
> multiproduct releases based on wrong fundamental assumption, without
> statistical backing up of what they considered being the underlying cause
> for some of their assumptions  and without thoroughly thinking things
> through what needs to be done before being able to do that as well as the
> fact we lack the necessary community infrastructure and workflows being in
> place to remotely being able to achieve delivering multiple products in a
> useful and efficient manner based on the resources we have in the project.
>
> And as WG's slowy turn into tiny little empires fighting amongst themselves
> for components directions and maintenance while the owners of those
> components are scratching their head still trying to figure how the
> .next,product and wg proposal affects them, their maintenance and where they
> general fit into that future vision or simply are ignoring it which
> inevitably will result in them suddenly finding themselves being slapped by
> reality and waking up from their slumber when it finally does hit them.
>
> Unfortunately I'm not seeing much future or vision in Fedora and it's
> direction anymore and the fact is that I'm failing to convey what needs to
> be fixed in any useful and meaningful way and manner, with the end result
> being that I'm not being heard and at the same time being powerless in
> fixing things that need fixing within the community. makes me part of the
> problem not the solution for the project and those that still believe in it
> and the direction it is taking as well as to who's being lined up to become
> the project's next leader.
>
> Will, Jon, James,Adam, Kamil, Tim, Peter, John Dulany, Bruno,Chris the
> entire Fedora unity team and bunch of other people that I have probably
> forgotten to mention thank you for for your hard work those 8+ years and the
> pleasure I had working with you.
>
> JBG
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Michal

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