[Scummvm-devel] Retirement & Goodbye

[Adrian Astley]

Johannes,

Thank you for your hard work and help to the community all these years. You
will be missed.


Regards,
Adrian

On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Eugene Sandulenko <sev.mail at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Johannes,
>
> This is sad, but understandable.
>
> I would like to use this opportunity to thank you again for all of these
> years. You often served as a great balance with your pragmatism, skills,
> and often perfectionism.
>
> Thank you also for letting me know about this letter beforehand.
>
> Let me wish you success in your new endeavours, especially now, after your
> study is finished.
>
> And once you have again this itching to write a line of code or two,
> you're always welcome!
>
>
> Eugene
>
> On 23 May 2016 at 23:07, Johannes Schickel <lordhoto at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I would like to take this opportunity to announce that with this mail, I
>> retire from my core team position. In addition, I will take an
>> indefinite break on any work on ScummVM. I might be back in the future,
>> I might not.
>>
>> I only want to briefly talk about my reasons to leave. In the recent
>> past, I found that ScummVM has become a burden to me. I don't get the
>> same joy from working on ScummVM as I used to. As many of you know I
>> considered retiring many times before. But this time there is a major
>> factor which I realized only recently: I am far too emotionally involved
>> in ScummVM. I feel too much responsibility for too many pieces of
>> ScummVM to the point where it drags me down so much that I lose any
>> motivation to work on it. This has passed the point where it is healthy
>> and I need to let go. Sadly the only way I can manage to achieve this is
>> by saying goodbye.
>>
>> I want to thank every one of you for your great work on this awesome
>> project. It has been a wild ride and so much fun for the most of it. But
>> there is a time to say goodbye before you taint your memory of it.
>>
>> I considered to be more elaborate on my feelings and reasons to leave,
>> but instead I would like to point back to Max's retirement mail from
>> 22.06.2011. I find myself in the same situation as Max described for too
>> many points he made. I think his mail is still an excellent starting
>> point for improving the project. There are a lot of points where ScummVM
>> made progress. But ScummVM can be even better if everyone involved can
>> take a step back and think on how it can be improved in these aspects. I
>> hope ScummVM lives long and prospers.
>>
>> Good luck guys. I hope everyone will have the same fun with the project
>> as I had.
>>
>> // Johannes
>>
>> PS: I will unsubscribe from this mailing list after I sent this mail. I
>> will be still reachable via mail, if anybody wants to talk. But I would
>> kindly ask you not to start a conversation about ScummVM work or trying
>> to change my mind. Thank you in advance.
>>
>>
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