[gentoo-dev] time to retire

[Craig <craig@gentoo.org>]

Hi everyone,

it was on my TODO list for 2018 anyways, but as Michal was asking if
I'm still active, I decided to speed this up: I'm formally retiring.

I haven't done much in recent years and felt like it would be
appropriate to formally retire in 2018. I've been an active gentoo
user for a very long time, probably since 2005. I've gotten more
involved the following years and got the security staff status
at some point in 2008-2009. Back in those good old days, I even had time
at work to file bugs and work on gentoo security!

However, over the years it came apparent that running gentoo is a very
time-consuming endeavour, (hello emerge blockers!) and in the past
years, I decided to migrate nearly all of our servers and my
workstations away from gentoo.

Running our business demands stable systems, with reproducible builds
and backported security patches, which is kind of hard to do with
gentoo. YMMV. I still think it's a great OS if you're willing to invest
some time to keep it up to date. :)

In my private time, I'll still be a linux user, but a distribution
that "just works" is fine with me nowadays. A lot has changed since
2005. :)

As he's retired for a a long time, he probably won't read this, but
special thanks to Robert for being an awesome mentor. :)

Thanks to everyone I met on my journey with gentoo, and special thanks
to my fellow German folks on that special IRC channel. ;)

If anyone is looking for a System Administration or DevOps job in
Germany or wants to reach me, feel free to contact me via my company
mail: s.behte@babiel.com.

- Stefan Behte