Re: [HACKERS] Retiring from the PostgreSQL core team

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:24:47AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> this is to inform the PostgreSQL community of my retirement from my
> PostgreSQL core team position.
>
> Over the past years I have not been able to dedicate as much time to
> PostgreSQL as everyone would have liked. The main reason for that was
> that I was swamped with other work and private matters and simply didn't
> have time. I did follow the mailing lists but did not participate much.
>
> Looking at my publicly visible involvement over the last two years or
> so, there is little that would justify me being on the core team today.
> I was not involved in the release process, in patch reviewing,
> organizing and have contributed little.
>
> However, in contrast to other previous core team members, I do not plan
> to disappear. Very much to the contrary. I am right now picking up some
> things that have long been on my TODO wish list and Afilias is doubling
> down on the commitment to PostgreSQL and Slony. We can and should talk
> about that stuff next week at PGCon in Ottawa. I will also stay in close
> contact with the remaining core team members, many of whom have become
> very good friends over the past 15 years.
>
> The entire core team, me included, hoped that it wouldn't come to this
> and that I could have returned to active duty earlier. Things in my
> little sub universe didn't change as fast as we all hoped and we all
> think it is best now that I focus on getting back to speed and do some
> serious hacking.
>
> I hope to see many of you in Ottawa.

You can run, but you can't hide ;)

Thanks for your deep and broad contributions so far, and I'm sure I
speak for many when I say we're looking forward to upcoming ones.

Cheers,
David.
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