Emanuele officially announced his retirement from the project last night. Real life duties are catching up with him, and he’s suffered a loss of motivation within Gentoo, and so he’s decided to move on. This saddens me greatly, because in his short career at Gentoo, he did some pretty amazing things: he cleaned up xterm, he set the clean up of kerberos into motion (which my long time readers will note is something I utterly failed at), and posted various and miscellaneous fixes all over the place (I’ll link to his CIA stats when that site comes back for me).
Anyway, there’s a trend of developers leaving or wanting to leave due to a loss of motivation. I hope it stops soon, because I’m getting sick of writing all these farewell blog entries — I prefer to write welcome messages.
So, any of you kerberos using Gentoo readers, please talk to me about how we can continue Emanuele’s good work in that area. I’m very very fortunate that Thomas pays attention to our xterm bugs, but Emanuele helped him too.
Mood: sad/slightly discouraged.
I’ve told him to stop wasting his time with typespeed but he just won’t listen to me.
Ema sei poco serio :p