[X2Go-Project] [X2Go-Dev] Shifting my focus in X2Go

[Mike Gabriel]

Dear Heinz, dear all,

On  So 11 Jan 2015 08:45:47 CET, Heinz-M. Graesing wrote:

> Dear Mike#1,
>
> we really thank you for your contributions, ideas and your help in the
> last 4 years. Thank you for taking the lead and assuming command when
> and where leadership was needed especially when the project was
> lacking it.
>
> Our Project is of course more than just the sum of all parts, but first
> and foremost, it *is* the sum of its parts. And you have been a
> significant part from the very moment you joined.
>
> We are obviously saddened by your decision to retire from most of the
> key positions you held. At least it did not come as a surprise to us,
> and we've had a chance to prepare.
>
> Also, we are happy about your decision that you will remain active in
> the project, so we will have a chance to tap into your knowledge and
> experience, whenever the need should arise.
>
> Thank you for contributing your projects and of course thank you for
> lending us your communication skills! It was a milestone for X2Go to
> get X2Goclient inside Debian! Pyhoca is offering a second way of
> usability and now people have a choice about the client. There are so
> many tasks we should be thankful of (jenkins, nightlies,
> git-administration, to be continued -> I believe you won't stop) and
> we really are!
>
> It would be a great honor for us to have you as host on our Gathering
> 2014 in Essen, please visit us 2015 in Treuchtlingen!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Heinz-M. Graesing

thanks a lot for your touching words and thanks a lot for your thankfulness.

Also thanks to all of you who are potentially thinking about stepping  
in to fill the void I have just created. Please do so, please join the  
upcoming discussions.

If one person becomes to big in a project, people don't dare stepping  
up and standing beside that person. This has been my impression over  
the last months in X2Go. With myself stepping down from my key  
positions in X2Go, I hope and I'd love to see people rise up and fill  
the provided space. May people in the project grow and rise and take  
over tasks and responsibility with a loving heart. May people reach  
goals with this project I have never dreamt off for X2Go.

Saying this: I am a bit surprised having seen your reply to my initial  
mail on this list only, so far. There are loads of issues to be  
discussed now and we all have prepared for this in private already  
(@others: of course there were various exchanges off-list about my  
planned workload reduction between some core people, namely Stefan,  
Heinz, Alex, Michael DePaulo, Mihai, GZNG and myself).

@all, esp. Heinz, Stefan, Alex, also Michael, Mihai: Please make sure  
you don't continue discussions off-list now. Please make the new  
orientation and restructuring process as public and transparent as  
possible. Don't be afraid of having controversal opinions about how  
things should proceed, you don't have to act as one entity!!!. Don't  
be afraid of arguing in public. For a FLOSS project in such a  
situation this is what people expect when watching from the outside.  
Seeing no discussions (and no arguing) at all would make me suspicious  
and let me assume that there is something boiling severely under the  
bonnet. I hope this is not the case ;-).

light+love,
Mike

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