[Cooker] Leaving

[Oden Eriksson]

Hello.

I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).

I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by Mandriva
for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going to miss it. It
has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all over the world. Some of
you I met in person on various occasions. I want to take the oppurtunity to
thank you all, you know who you are.

Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining
the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server
related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete
on the planet, constantly growing and alive.

--
Regards // Oden Eriksson

[Adam Williamson-4]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 22:55 +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote:

> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining
> the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server
> related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete
> on the planet, constantly growing and alive.

As I said in private, I'm really sad to hear this, Oden - you're way
more critical to the development of the distro than I ever was.

If you wind up maintaining LAMP for another distribution, please let me
know which, because my server will be running that distro. Unless it's
Ubuntu. ;)
--
adamw

[Stéphane Téletchéa]

----- "Oden Eriksson" <oeriksson@...> a écrit :

> Hello.
>
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not
> worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my
> contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me
> too(tm).
>
> I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by
> Mandriva
> for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going to miss
> it. It
> has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all over the world.
> Some of
> you I met in person on various occasions. I want to take the
> oppurtunity to
> thank you all, you know who you are.
>
> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not)
> maintaining
> the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly
> server
> related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most
> complete
> on the planet, constantly growing and alive.
>
> --
> Regards // Oden Eriksson

This is *really* irritating, i hope you'll get a new job rapidly, but i will really hope you'll stay with Mandriva !

Il domenica 30 novembre 2008 22:55:24 Oden Eriksson ha scritto:
> Hello.
>
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).

That's another bad news :(
No words to say anything :/

I can only wish you all the best for your future, we'll for sure miss you.

--
Angelo

[Dick Gevers]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:55:24 +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote about [Cooker]
Leaving:

>I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
>bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my
>contract cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me
>too(tm).

That is another great loss to Mandriva. I thank you v.m. for all you have
done and wish you the best in the future wherever you go.

Kind regards,
=Dick Gevers=

[Tomasz Paweł Gajc]

Dnia 2008-11-30, o godz. 22:55:24
Oden Eriksson <oeriksson@...> napisał(a):

> Hello.
>
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not
> worth bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got
> my contract cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december.
> Yeah, me too(tm).
>
> I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by
> Mandriva for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going
> to miss it. It has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all
> over the world. Some of you I met in person on various occasions. I
> want to take the oppurtunity to thank you all, you know who you are.
>
> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not)
> maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This
> is mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my
> knowledge the most complete on the planet, constantly growing and
> alive.
>

WTF? Someone please stop this insanity ?

With you knowledge, you shouldn't stay to long as a unemployee. Best
luck dude.

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[Nicolas Lécureuil-4]

Le Sunday 30 November 2008 23:59:12 Tomasz Paweł Gajc, vous avez écrit :

> Dnia 2008-11-30, o godz. 22:55:24
>
> Oden Eriksson <oeriksson@...> napisał(a):
> > Hello.
> >
> > I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not
> > worth bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got
> > my contract cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december.
> > Yeah, me too(tm).
> >
> > I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by
> > Mandriva for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going
> > to miss it. It has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all
> > over the world. Some of you I met in person on various occasions. I
> > want to take the oppurtunity to thank you all, you know who you are.
> >
> > Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not)
> > maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This
> > is mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my
> > knowledge the most complete on the planet, constantly growing and
> > alive.
>
> WTF? Someone please stop this insanity ?

Give a huge quantity of money and this will stop :)

--
Cordialement,
Nicolas Lécureuil
Contributeur KDE pour Mandriva
JID: neoclust@...

[Colin Guthrie-8]

Oden Eriksson wrote:
> Yeah, me too(tm).

I've said as much to you privately already, but this is a second major
blow to Mandriva.

I was quietly hoping that things would be negotiated in your favour and
there would be a way for you to stay, but I guess that hasn't happened
yet (I living in hope).

My day job depends on the LAMP stack and I've been so very appreciative
of your dedication to creating such a good stack in Mandriva.

Without you at the helm with this I feel totally demoralised, not to
mention quite concerned about what will happen to the tools and software
that I depend on. I don't want to state the obvious but I contribute to
Mandriva because I want my own desktop experience to be better, and I
hope the work I do helps others too. If the LAMP stack in Mandriva
suffers and I am forced to find a more reliable version in a different
distro (I certainly don't have time to take over the maintenance) then I
will not be using Mandriva on my desktop any more. You can join the rest
of the dots.

I really hope it doesn't come to that (this is not a threat or ultimatum
- I'm sure I don't hold enough sway to make that worthwhile!) and it
will take a while to see how badly this will affect things, but I have a
really bad feeling right now.

I know Mandriva has had it's fair share of ups and downs in the past but
this really feels a very low point.


I really hope some very decisive action for the management will be
released to us soon that will help restore some confidence.

:(

--

Colin Guthrie
cguthrie(at)mandriva.org
http://colin.guthr.ie/

Day Job:
   Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/]
Open Source:
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[Austin Acton]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 22:55 +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).

Oden, buddy, whoever is lucky enough to capture your talent next will be
laughing with satisfaction while the *next* CEO of Mandriva is
scrambling to figure out how to get you back.

Spending some time with you was the highlight of my one and only trip to
France.  You gave me tips about Linux and RPM and server software.  You
also taught me a little about Sweden and a lot about life.

May Northern Sweden treat you as well as Northern Canada is treating me.
Oh, and may your LAMPy skills be rewarded with plump pay cheques in the
near future!

Austin

[drakedalfa]

Wow, this new CEO doesnt know how this works. Who hired him? How he
think Mandriva will be better if all the good employess doesnt work
anymore there? All the good thinks from the 2009 release will be send
to the trash about this.

I think the problems with mandriva is not because of the cualitity of
the distro but the admin people behind de distro, they dont know
nothing about Free Software. Too many bad decisions in so short time.

This new CEO doesnt read all this? the forums? the cooker lists? the
blogs? who is this guy? is about to broke mandriva in a heavy way.

can some one show to him all this opinions?

On Sunday 30 November 2008, Oden Eriksson wrote:
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).

These news are not only sad, they are weird.

Is Microsoft buying out the Mandriva CEOs?

[John Keller-4]

Oden Eriksson wrote:
> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining
> the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server
> related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete
> on the planet, constantly growing and alive.

Oden, I've never met you in person, but like a good number of others,
I've come to recognize your name on a great number of the packages that
I use and rely on. I appreciate all the work that you've put into
maintaining a consistent polish to your contributions.

I hope you're quickly re-hired by a place that will give you the
challenges you enjoy and opportunities to grow.

Best wishes,

- John

[Spencer Anderson-2]

John Keller wrote:

>
> Oden Eriksson wrote:
>> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not)
>> maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This
>> is mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my
>> knowledge the most complete on the planet, constantly growing and alive.
>
> Oden, I've never met you in person, but like a good number of others,
> I've come to recognize your name on a great number of the packages
> that I use and rely on. I appreciate all the work that you've put into
> maintaining a consistent polish to your contributions.
>
> I hope you're quickly re-hired by a place that will give you the
> challenges you enjoy and opportunities to grow.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> - John
>

+1

Oden Eriksson ha scritto:

> Hello.
>
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).
>
> I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by Mandriva
> for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going to miss it. It
> has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all over the world. Some of
> you I met in person on various occasions. I want to take the oppurtunity to
> thank you all, you know who you are.
>
> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining
> the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server
> related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete
> on the planet, constantly growing and alive.
>
>  

This is another bad news for mandriva and for the community,

thank you for all the work you've done Mandriva... i wish you to find a new interesting job, where all yor skills can be appreciated.

Good luck

Bye,
Marcello

[Zeb-3]

Hi,

Just adding my little stone to the wall here: Oden and Adam have been both precious to the community and their respective contributions have been extremely valuable.

Now it seems clear that the business strategy for Mandriva will be less and less development and more and more service-for-fee for probably companies and administrations. If one looks at their result figures, it is clear that consumer sells make a lot less money than corporate/admin/government contracts.

Although this might make sense to a company, that cannot survive without making profit, I am really afraid for this community and also for innovation.

Anyway, I wish Adam and Oden best of luck for the furture. I hope that you enjoyed France and Paris and that you'll find new jobs soon. If I were a CEO or HR, I would definitely try to get a hand on you!

Kind regards,
Zeb / Eric

[Frank Griffin-4]

Oden Eriksson wrote:
> Yeah, me too(tm).
>  

Another shame.  Thanks for all your good work.

[Pacho Ramos]

El dom, 30-11-2008 a las 22:55 +0100, Oden Eriksson escribió:

> Hello.
>
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).
>
> I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by Mandriva
> for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going to miss it. It
> has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all over the world. Some of
> you I met in person on various occasions. I want to take the oppurtunity to
> thank you all, you know who you are.
>
> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining
> the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server
> related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete
> on the planet, constantly growing and alive.
>

:-O

Seems incredible for me that Mandriva kicks a dev that is really active,
maintains a lot of packages and fixes a lot of bugs really quickly when
possible (and he is also kind with reporters)

Other stupid decision

What plans does new CEO have for making Mandriva "work" after kicking
developers and people who interacts with community?

Really sad to see how Mandriva will collapse if more of these wrong
decisions will be taken again

[katnatek-bdk]

Adam Williamson wrote:

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 22:55 +0100, Oden Eriksson wrote:

> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not) maintaining
> the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is mostly server
> related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge the most complete
> on the planet, constantly growing and alive.

As I said in private, I'm really sad to hear this, Oden - you're way
more critical to the development of the distro than I ever was.

If you wind up maintaining LAMP for another distribution, please let me
know which, because my server will be running that distro. Unless it's
Ubuntu. ;)
--
adamw

Please some one tell me all of this is a nightmare, Mandriva was healing of all the change of name, bad decisions and bad projects damage, and now come with this, i really hope the non-external people that replace you, Oden and others do his job, other wise i see dark skies for Mandriva in future

Dne Sunday 30 November 2008 22:55:24 Oden Eriksson napsal(a):

> Hello.
>
> I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not worth
> bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam got my contract
> cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of december. Yeah, me too(tm).
>
> I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by
> Mandriva for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm going to
> miss it. It has been a pleasure cooperating with people from all over the
> world. Some of you I met in person on various occasions. I want to take the
> oppurtunity to thank you all, you know who you are.
>
> Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not)
> maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain. This is
> mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack, to my knowledge
> the most complete on the planet, constantly growing and alive.

Really sorry to hear that.
How many legs does MDV s.a. have so that it can afford to shoot into them so
often?

hajma

[Tomasz Paweł Gajc]

Dnia 2008-12-01, o godz. 22:22:07
hajma <tropikhajma@...> napisał(a):

> Dne Sunday 30 November 2008 22:55:24 Oden Eriksson napsal(a):
> > Hello.
> >
> > I hesitated going public with this due to a number of reasons not
> > worth bothering you about. The bottom line is that I as with Adam
> > got my contract cancelled, this will take effect the 31st of
> > december. Yeah, me too(tm).
> >
> > I've been contributing since 1999 I think and has been contracted by
> > Mandriva for about four years now. It's been a fun ride and I'm
> > going to miss it. It has been a pleasure cooperating with people
> > from all over the world. Some of you I met in person on various
> > occasions. I want to take the oppurtunity to thank you all, you
> > know who you are.
> >
> > Someone, or a couple of people will get their hands full (or not)
> > maintaining the 1200+ source rpm packages I currently maintain.
> > This is mostly server related stuff. For example the (L)AMP stack,
> > to my knowledge the most complete on the planet, constantly growing
> > and alive.
>
> Really sorry to hear that.
> How many legs does MDV s.a. have so that it can afford to shoot into
> them so often?
>
> hajma
>

Hehe good one ;)

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