Post details: Farewell

31 March, 2008

Permalink 20:39 UTC, by Lars Weiler Email , 248 words, 366 views   English (US)
Categories: Gentoo

Farewell

It's not an easy task, but I thought deeply about it. This will be my last post on planet Gentoo. I will leave the project.

I've been a developer for more that five years now. I saw good and bad times of Gentoo. And I wish I could find the time to help more. But with the end of my study last summer and the begin of my full-time job, this is not possible any more. My commits decreased more and more. My bugs laid around for a long time. This is not acceptable – neither for me nor for the users.

Furthermore I live now in one of the best cities in Europe: Cologne. I like to spend my leisure time with visiting concerts and other cultural events. And there are a lot of in this town.

I liked to be a Gentoo developer, as I could learn a lot. Nowadays I need that knowledge for my daily work. There are a lot of Linux tasks in my job, although none Gentoo related. But that's also interesting.

You can still find me at some Linux-related events over here in Europe. I will also stay in the board of the „Friends of Gentoo e.V.“ in Germany. And you might see some bug reports or contributions from me. So, don't take this as a farewell for eternity.

Let me thank all the developers I met during the last years and especially those I had a beer with :-)

Good bye.

Comments:

Comment from: Ingo [Visitor] Email
Good luck, lots of fun... and thank you!
PermalinkPermalink 31 March, 2008 @ 22:06
Comment from: Kevin Bowling [Visitor] Email · http://www.kev009.com/
Sad to see you go :-(. Thank you for your work, us users appreciate it!
PermalinkPermalink 31 March, 2008 @ 22:40
Comment from: Jon Gerdes [Visitor] Email
Hope you have a good time in Koln (wonder how I do an 'o' umlaut on a UK kb layout - can't be arsed to look up the code.)

Thanks for your work on Gentoo.

Much appreciated.

Cheers
Jon Gerdes
PermalinkPermalink 31 March, 2008 @ 23:24
Comment from: Christian [Visitor] Email
Nah, I hope to have a beer with you sometimes. Lots of lucks with your new job.
PermalinkPermalink 1 April, 2008 @ 05:55
Comment from: laen [Visitor] Email
Let me be the first to thank you for all the work and efforts!

Normally, a message like this from a gentoo dev, involves bullshit about problems with other devs or something alike.. but this is just awesome: a nice job, concerts.. go go Lars!

Wish you a lot of luck and fun with the job, and especially with the concerts!
PermalinkPermalink 1 April, 2008 @ 06:47
Comment from: zypher [Visitor] Email
Yo!
I know exactly how you feel cuz I did the same three months ago.
We'll have our beer(s) soon enough now that you live here ;)
cheers
PermalinkPermalink 4 April, 2008 @ 16:05

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