Hi Donnie

Thanks a lot for the work you've done for the Council and Gentoo as a
whole. I can fully understand your motivations, although it's a pity to
see you leave so shortly before the end of terms.

Good luck with the other Gentoo projects and your private life.

Cheers,
Tiziano

Am Montag, den 25.05.2009, 22:09 -0700 schrieb Donnie Berkholz:
> After thinking about it for a couple of weeks, I've decided to resign 
> from the council. I think the management and unification provided by the 
> council is critical, but I just don't have the time to commit on a 
> regular basis that's necessary to do a good job. I'm trying to finish my 
> Ph.D. and applying for postdoctoral fellowships, and along with my new 
> daughter, that means I can't promise any regular commitment of time.
> 
> Instead, I expect to spend what Gentoo time I have thinking and talking 
> about our future direction and working to innovate rather than managing 
> that innovation. I have the utmost confidence that others can fill my 
> place on the council. Therefore, it's more important for me to focus on 
> innovation, which I feel is driven by individual developers, including 
> me. I'm very excited to restart working on projects that I've mostly 
> dropped because of my council commitment, such as helping with the git 
> conversion, spending more time on PR, and finishing the test-suite 
> framework for eclasses, among other things.
> 
> I'm still available for advice about anything council-related, so feel 
> free to ask at any point.

-- 
Tiziano Müller
Gentoo Linux Developer, Council Member
Areas of responsibility:
  Samba, PostgreSQL, CPP, Python, sysadmin, GLEP Editor
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