On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:24:47AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > this is to inform the PostgreSQL community of my retirement from my > PostgreSQL core team position. > > Over the past years I have not been able to dedicate as much time to > PostgreSQL as everyone would have liked. The main reason for that was > that I was swamped with other work and private matters and simply didn't > have time. I did follow the mailing lists but did not participate much. > > Looking at my publicly visible involvement over the last two years or > so, there is little that would justify me being on the core team today. > I was not involved in the release process, in patch reviewing, > organizing and have contributed little. > > However, in contrast to other previous core team members, I do not plan > to disappear. Very much to the contrary. I am right now picking up some > things that have long been on my TODO wish list and Afilias is doubling > down on the commitment to PostgreSQL and Slony. We can and should talk > about that stuff next week at PGCon in Ottawa. I will also stay in close > contact with the remaining core team members, many of whom have become > very good friends over the past 15 years. > > The entire core team, me included, hoped that it wouldn't come to this > and that I could have returned to active duty earlier. Things in my > little sub universe didn't change as fast as we all hoped and we all > think it is best now that I focus on getting back to speed and do some > serious hacking. > > I hope to see many of you in Ottawa. You can run, but you can't hide ;) Thanks for your deep and broad contributions so far, and I'm sure I speak for many when I say we're looking forward to upcoming ones. Cheers, David. -- David Fetter <david@xxxxxxxxxx> http://fetter.org/ Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fetter@xxxxxxxxx iCal: webcal://www.tripit.com/feed/ical/people/david74/tripit.ics Remember to vote! Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
