Stepping down

John Meinel john at arbash-meinel.com
Tue May 16 08:00:28 UTC 2017


Thank you for all your contributions Vincent. It was a pleasure working
with you.

John
=:->


On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:25 AM, Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr>
wrote:

> Hello bazar community members,
>
> After more than 11 years, I’m stepping down my activities around bazaar
> (code reviews, bug triage and fixing, releases).
>
> The journey will remain the most amazing I ever lived.
>
> Thank you all for using, testing, documenting and writing this nice
> piece of a Version Control System (VCS).
>
> To date, the bzr code base and especially its test suite have allowed me
> to keep bzr usable with a very limited effort (free time was scarce ;).
>
> The most significant bugs in the last years were caused by upstream
> breaking compatibility (python or other deps, for good or less good
> reasons :) and in every case, there was at least one test failing
> pointing the issue and allowing focused bug fixes.
>
> I thought unmaintained (minimally here) software *has* to bitrot. For
> bzr at least that didn’t happen. Which is a good thing for a tool
> keeping track of projects long term memory ;)
>
> I don’t know what Canonical will do from now on though I keep my fingers
> crossed that the dep8 tests will continue to catch issues early enough
> for someone to fix them before any user is impacted.
>
> Thanks again for all the fish !
>
>         Vincent
>
>
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