Farewell!

[michaelgregorius]

Hello @LMMS/developers,

I'd like to use this discussion to reach out to you and to bid farewell as I have decided to leave the project after 10 years of contributions.

This decision has not been taken lightheartedly. Knowing that some features are used by thousands of users across the globe to make music always has been a big motivation for me! Another motivation was to take the insights that were gained from the use of some commercial DAWs and to transfer them to LMMS to make it more on par with these DAWs. It has always been fun to extend and improve LMMS and it won't be easy to leave all of this behind.

I have come to the conclusion though that the current project organization and flow of information does not work for me anymore and that it might be better to leave and focus on other things.

I will be available with regards to my open pull requests if they are intended to be merged at one point so that the effort and work is not wasted. However, I won't implement any new features or do reviews anymore.

Finally I'd like to thank all developers and users for the collaborations, discussions and insights over all these years! I wish you good luck in your personal endeavors and wish the project all the best as well. It was a great experience to work with all of you! I'd also like to take the opportunity to thank @tresf for the trust he brought forward when he added me to the maintainers list all these years ago!

Kind regards,

Michael

P.S.: It would have been rather hard to address everyone I have worked with individually, so I hope that it is okay to use the developers catch all on this occasion. 😉

[zonkmachine]

Thank you for your contribution here Michael. We've both been here some ten years and that's actually a big chunk of our lives.
Interacting with you has been a joy and I hope to bump into you again. I wish you the best of luck with whatever your prompt is taking you from here.

> sudo shutdown -h now

Oskar

[michaelgregorius]

Thanks for your kind words Oskar (@zonkmachine)!

You are right, it's been a big chunk of our lives. Some days ago I wondered of how thick of a book one would get if all comments and code contributions that have been made here over all the years would be collected. Might be an interesting experiment using the GitHub API. 🤔

I always enjoyed working with you as well! To me it always felt like we are on the same wavelength.

> sudo shutdown -h now

Regarding this project it's a shutdown but with regards to other projects and perspectives I rather hope that it's a

> sudo reboot -h now

I wish you the best for your future endeavors on a personal as well as a professional level!

Michael

[sakertooth]

Thank you for your time and contributions Michael. I'm holding out hope that once we improve the project management, you and possibly newer developers will be more inspired to make contributions for the project.

We are already taking steps in that direction with the new progress reports (I am also hoping that we don't become to inconsistent in doing them in the upcoming months, but life does happen), so the future is brighter. More and more people have been stepping up in the recent weeks as well so it's been quite an active time for the project compared to before.

[michaelgregorius]

Happy to hear that the project is still evolving and growing, @sakertooth. The first progress report gave a good indication of what's going on in the project so I hope that they can be kept up. They would give the project a feeling of cohesion and continuity which is not captured by PR and issue management.

In German there's the saying "never say never" (don't know if this translated well) but for now I will try some other paths and projects. However, no one knows what the future holds and perhaps one day I will dust of my local working copy and start coding on LMMS again.

It has always been a pleasure working and discussing with you, @sakertooth!