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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] It's time for me to move on
  • Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 19:52:24 -0500

It's been nearly half a week and no nominations for Temporary Project
Lead. Just making some noise so that people don't forget about this.

On 05/20/2016 11:24 PM, David Kowis wrote:
> SourceMage and I no longer see eye-to-eye. It's not you, it's me. I've
> changed. I used to love doing all the SMGL things. Now I just want to
> build a box with chef, and never actually have to log into the box to
> configure things. I want to declare how my system should look, and let a
> tool take care of it for me.
>
> I've learned a whole lot about how things work under the hood, but I no
> longer enjoy tinkering with it. I do not regret learning all these
> things, and I wouldn't trade the experience for anything. Now, however,
> I mostly just want to use it, and SMGL doesn't really give me that.
>
> I'm resigning as Project Lead. I'll stick around and run one last vote,
> to handle the election of a new Temporary Project Lead, I don't mind
> doing that. I also will be around for as long as it takes to transition
> stuff, not that there's a lot to transition, fortunately. I won't delete
> any passwords I have in my safe until a year or two from now, just to be
> certain.
>
> This distro is one of the few that still doesn't use systemd, and that's
> pretty awesome. I wish I had the time and the desire to make it more
> awesome, but it's just not where I'm at right now.
>
> Thanks for letting me lead you guys for the last several years. It's
> been my privilege.
>
> This can also stand as an official call for Temporary Project Lead
> nominations as per our bylaws: http://sourcemage.org/Policy/Voting
>
> PS: I'll be AFK over this weekend, celebrating a 10 year wedding
> anniversary with my wife, and she deserves my attention :)
>
> --
> David Kowis
>
>
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