Re: Leaving the project

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On Tue, 20 May 2014 13:04:49 +0000
"Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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

I'm sorry to hear it, I was looking forward to getting a beer with you
at some conference in the future. Good luck in whatever you go into
next!

// Mike

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