Stepping down

[Alexander Belchenko]

Thank you, Vincent. It was a pleasure to meet and work with you.

2017-05-16 10:25 GMT+03:00 Vincent Ladeuil <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr>:

> 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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