Project maintainer is changing!

[Christian Metzen]

Hi Gustavo,

first lets thank you for your great development. With smart we really
pushed our package management and made some things easier than before.

Second, congratulations to Anders, i really hope he could push development
again, i really hope to see smart growing in the community. And perhaps
this will bring us some really needed features in the near future like q
qt4 gui ( what would really be great), or somehow a more exposed api that
makes it possible or better easier for external developers to perhaps
develop something like new guis or interfaces for smart

Regards,
Christian Metzen
CCux Linux Lead Development
http://ccux-linux.de

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:55:25 -0200, Gustavo Niemeyer
<gustavo at niemeyer.net>
wrote:
> Dear Smarters,
> 
> After many years of development in Smart, I feel like the time has
> come to hand out the project maintenance to someone else.  Anders F.
> Björklund will be taking care of the project from today on.
> 
> I'm very happy that Smart has survived that long with a reasonable
> community adoption, and I have to say that in the last several months
> Anders has been doing a fantastic job keeping up with requests in the
> mailing list, in the bug tracker, and shuffling bzr branches around.
> So much so that I feel today like I'm blocking the progress of the
> project by taking control of the development process when I actually
> don't have enough time for doing it properly.
> 
> With that in mind, I won't go away entirely from the project, and will
> be around for answering about undocumented code or other specific
> questions, but Anders is now entirely free to push forward the project
> as he understands is the best direction for the project to move on.
> 
> Thanks a lot to everyone who contributed over those years, including
> Conectiva and Canonical, which directly and indirectly contributed to
> the development of the project.
> 
> Now, please keep up with Anders.  I feel like a better time for the
> Smart project is about to be seen.