Announcement: I'm joining Canonical (and Cart needs a home)

John Arbash Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Thu Dec 20 11:55:01 GMT 2007


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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just wanted to let you that I'm joining Canonical starting
> mid-January.  I'll be working on the Bazaar-Launchpad team, which is
> focused on making Bazaar + Launchpad greater than the sum of its parts.
>  That's a different team from the Bazaar team, though obviously related.
> 
> This puts me in a conflict of interest wrt Cart.  I can't really work on
> two bugtrackers at once.  Does anyone want to take over the Cart
> project?  I'd certainly be willing to offer advice.
> 
> It also puts me in a conflict of interest with Bundle Buggy, but Mark
> Shuttleworth has given me his blessing to continue to work on Bundle
> Buggy, until such time as the Bazaar project switches to using Launchpad
> as our merge-tracker/code review system.
> 
> I expect to continue working as a volunteer on Bazaar and bzrtools.
> I'll be switching bzrtools to use Launchpad for bug tracking, to help me
> dogfood.
> 
> Aaron

Welcome to the team. I'm curious if being involved directly will lead to more
or less time for you. You've always been so productive as an independent developer.

It is great to have you.

John
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