Re: [gentoo-science] Re: Gentoo Science project status

[Norman Warthmann <norman@warthmann.com>]

Dear list, dear ribosome,

I am just a user of gentoo and this is my first post to this list. As  
the traffic is very low, I guess I can afford to briefly express how  
thankful I am for ribosomes work.
My perception may be skewed, but to me the work of ribosome has been  
very visible and I guess it is fair to say that ribosome contributed  
big time to the fact that gentoo became the distribution of choice for  
biologist.
He was always quick in replying, writing new ebuilds and I have very  
lively memories when he developed the ebuild for the staden package  
such that it would also run on my sparc. Thank you very much Olivier  
for your work and I hope that there will be others continuing.

cheers and all the best

Norman

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Norman Warthmann
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Dept. Molecular Biology
http://www.warthmann.com






On May 19, 2009, at 20:34 PM, Olivier Fisette wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I used to be active in the sci herd (mainly in the computational  
> biology and
> chemistry projects), but the last year has seen very little activity  
> from me.
> I stepped down from maintaining most of my packages recently since  
> it has
> become obvious I no longer have the time and motivation necessary to  
> deserve
> a developer position. I plan to retire this summer after finishing a  
> few long
> overdue tasks.
>
> I will still want to contribute, so maybe I can find someone to work  
> with as a
> proxy maintainer for EMBOSS and related packages. Otherwise, I will  
> only be
> around to fill bug reports and maybe contribute to the overlay from  
> time to
> time.
>
> I still love Gentoo, but I have invested myself in other personal and
> professional projects and just no longer have enough free time to  
> want to
> dedicate much of it to Gentoo, unfortunately.
>
> With kind regards,
>
> Olivier
>
> -- 
> Olivier Fisette (ribosome)
> Gentoo Linux Developer
> Scientific applications
>