Michal Čihař: Spring cleanup
What you can probably spot from past posts on my blog, my open source
contributions are heavily focused on Weblate and I've
phased out many other activities. The main reason being reduced amount of free
time with growing family, what leads to focusing on project which I like most.
It's fun to develop it and it seems like it will work business wise as well,
but that's still something to be shown in the future.
Anyway it's time to admit that I will not spend much time on other things in
near future.
Earlier this year, I've resigned from being
phpMyAdmin project admin. I was in this role
for three years and I've been contributing to the project for 18
years. It has been time, but I haven't contributed
significantly in last few months. I will stay with the project for few more
months to handle smooth transition, but it's time to say good bye there.
On the Debian project I want to stay active, but
I've reduced my involvement and I'm looking for maintainers for some of my
packages
(mostly RPM related). The special case is the phpMyAdmin package where I was
looking for help since 2017, but it still
didn't help from the package becoming heavily outdated with security issues
what lead to it's removal from Buster. It seems that this has triggered
enough attention to resurrect work on the
updated packages.
Today I've gone through my personal repos on GitHub and I've archived bunch
of them. These have
not received any attention for years (many of them were dead by the time I've
imported them to GitHub) and it's good to clearly show that to random
visitors.
I'm still main developer behind Gammu, but I'm not really
doing there more than occasional review of pull requests and merging them. I
don't want to abandon the project without handing it out to somebody else, but
the problem is that there is nobody else right
now.
2019-05-29