Subject: Resignation as Debian Release Manager
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.project, gmane.linux.debian.devel.release
Date: 2005-09-22 23:10:00 GMT (3 years, 3 weeks, 2 days, 3 hours and 53 minutes ago)
Hi, I hereby tender my resignation as Debian Release Manager. Steve Langasek and I have been working together as RMs since August 2004, following Anthony Towns' resignation. I was very happy and honoured to be in one of the hot-seats at the release of Debian 3.1, after a huge effort from pretty much everyone concerned. All told, I'm pleased with the work I put in there. Nevertheless, towards the end of this period it became clear that a combination of my work commitments, the preparations for my wedding in August, moving house, and acquiring a new stepson were leaving me less and less time for release management work, and furthermore that each time I tried to get back on top of things I was spending too much time getting up to speed and not enough time doing useful work. Over the summer, I took a vacation to (a) get married, have a honeymoon, and so on, and (b) see what happened to my Debian work when I wasn't doing release management. During that vacation I found that I got a number of interesting things done and was enjoying myself much more in the process. Steve has been most forbearing of my time off, but it's not fair on him to leave him holding the reins by himself without deciding what I'm going to do, and after some thought I've decided that I'd rather leave other people in charge of making the decisions. I'm still interested in retaining membership of the release team as more of an engineer than a manager, and I think I have plenty of experience to bring to that. Aside from that, with any luck I can get back to hacking in a more guilt-free manner now.