systemctl restart $me@sabayon.service

[Sławomir Nizio]

Hello all,

Soon there will be ten years since I installed Sabayon for the first
time and I've been using it since then. It's that good! But now I feel
it's time to move forward, or sideward, and switch to something else
which also means that I stop contributing. (Maybe I would stop anyway,
to have some kind of rest and get some distance?)

I don't want to make it all of a sudden, though, so I plan to be here
still for 1.5 months (until April 15th) and during this time I will:

- do some contributions, as needed,
- be available for questions,
- document stuff and post scripts.

So this is not a good bye message yet.

PS Please don't remove my @sabayon.org just yet (or anything for that
matter), and not without prior notice. I would need to find and update
some Bugzilla accounts etc.

[Joost Ruis]

Hey man,

Hate to see you go, but I understand. I don't think we need to remove your @sabayon.org at all.

I really appreciate that you announced this early, so the team has enough time to ask questions and mine as much knowledge as possible.
I wish you all the best and hope you somehow keep contributing to the FOSS community! Hopefully you sometimes will drop in IRC after April the 15th and let us know how you are doing.

It has always been an honor serving with you my friend!

Cheers!

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[Daniele Rondina]

Thanks, Enlik for your support in entropy stuff and with our chroot and for all hard work. Your support in the last years is been very important to maintain Sabayon alive.

I know what means use free time for others. Thanks again for your free time for support Sabayon.

I hope to see you again around in the future.

Good luck for all!

Daniele

[Fabio]

Thank you Enlik for all these years of service, supporting Entropy and taking it to the next Python level!

[Jerrod Frost]

Sad to see you go Enlik. Thanks for everything. You've always been a reliable guy. Hope you'll still hang around in chat from time to time.

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[Ettore Di Giacinto]

That's very sad. I almost barely can reply :/ 

I didn't saw that coming... Really sad to see you going.  I hope that's just a joke and nothing permanent. Wish you the best, and hopefully get to see you soon. (I won't never say goodbye!)

I won't even say thanks for everything (even if that's obviously implied), because that means you are going away seriously!

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[Sławomir Nizio]

> That's very sad. I almost barely can reply :/
>
> I didn't saw that coming... Really sad to see you going.  I hope that's
> just a joke and nothing permanent. Wish you the best, and hopefully get
> to see you soon. (I won't never say goodbye!)
>
> I won't even say thanks for everything (even if that's obviously
> implied), because that means you are going away seriously!

:D

Thanks Joost, Daniele, Fabio, Jerrod and Ettore for the kind words.

(And yes, I think there will be enough occasions to chat even after the
promised period.)

[Sławomir Nizio]

> (…) and during this time I will:

(…)

> - document stuff and post scripts.

it can be found here:
https://github.com/Enlik/sabayon-maint-notes

[Sławomir Nizio]

Unrelated, someone should request to change overlays' contact point.

It can be done e.g. by making a pull request, as described here:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Overlays/Overlays_guide#Requesting_adding_repository_hosted_elsewhere_.28the_new_way.29.

As noted in that page, owner should have a Bugzilla account (so mail
must match).

[Sławomir Nizio]

Hello,

> I plan to be here still for 1.5 months (until April 15th)

The announced day has come: starting from today, I will stop
contributing to Sabayon. It has been a great journey and I'm happy to
have been here.

I installed this distribution nearly ten years ago. It was a 32 bit
version and ran on a PC with a single core CPU. Later, when I've got a
new computer (it was a laptop for mobility), I installed again a 32 bit
version. Maybe due to a kind of nostalgia, but I also wanted to compare
it with a 64 bit version that I would install one day. And I did some
time after that, after Sabayon removed support for 32 bit editions.

My first "recorded" contributions to the project seem to be patches to a
now forgotten tool called sabutil, which I shared on the bug tracker.
Then it became even more interesting.

Thanks for the opportunity of being part of this. By the way, I saw how
much effort is needed to run a distribution. (The good part: one can
choose how much time and energy can be spent on a selected piece of
work.) This is a good moment for me to thank to all current and previous
Sabayon developers and contributions. Also, thanks Joost for helping me
to join. And of course, this distribution wouldn't be possible - at
least not in this form - if Gentoo didn't exist. Thanks also to you,
former and present Gentoo guys!

And thanks to users for thinking out of the box a bit and choosing Sabayon.

What I personally like in this distribution? Wide selection of packages;
being a rolling one; several branches of kernels to choose from, and
without forced updates between them; avoidance of breaking out of tree
modules like nvidia, vbox, zfs; quality Gentoo tools available and easy
access to building from source whilst keeping the merits of a binary
distribution; good package manager; no need to update packages database
too often just to install something (packages don't expire too early);
and lack of obvious breakages (like missing libraries or dependencies
after upgrade) thanks to QA tools by Fabio.

All of this makes it a pretty unique distribution, giving one more
choice for those who value its traits (and can tolerate its weak points;
all distributions have these).

Oh and it's a community effort, and is based on Gentoo which is also run
by community which is a nice thing.

Okay guys, you already said nice words like thanks under my initial
announcement, so no need to repeat yourselves. :) My accesses can be
removed now. I cut myself off from the server to avoid temptation to log in.

That's all from me. Take care!