[dsdp-mtj-dev] Change in MTJ committers

[Christian Kurzke <christian@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello MTJ,

as many of you know Gustavo, Diego, David, and in the past Hugo, are 
employed as contractors to Motorola in Brazil and the MTJ project 
benefited from their full-time assignment as "Motorola sponsored" 
committers to this project.

I would like to take this opportunity and formally recognize and thank 
them for all the great work they have delivered:
They helped to re-energize the MTJ project, refactor and merge the 
code-base with the EclipseME code (thanks Craig!!), and they have been 
instrumental in creating the MTJ 1.0 release and the Pulsar package 
release this year.

Without their help, none of that could have happened, and I have been 
incredibly lucky and proud to have worked with them during this phase.

Unfortunately this team has now been assigned to a different project, 
and it will no longer be their full-time job to work as MTJ committers.

As you fellow Eclipse contributors know, being an Eclipse committer is 
not only a "day time" job, it is a personal commitment, a badge of honor 
and a pleasure to be part of this elite group of skilled open source 
developers.
Fortunately, all of them have expressed interest to stay involved in MTJ 
as "individual committers", and are working with the Eclipse foundation 
on the transitioning of their paper work.

But - What this means for the project:

- Their Motorola email addresses will change: I asked each individually 
to communicate their new contact information to the mailing list (guys: 
PLEASE be aware of spammers, and "obscure" your email address when you 
post them on this public forum!)

- They are now doing this on their "own time". (And I'm no longer their 
boss... ;) ):  So, please be aware that the turn-around times on 
bugfixes may be taking a bit longer.

Finally, I want to remind everyone,  NOW would be a great time for new 
committers to step up and join the project.

:)

Just to clarify - I am planning to stay engaged as Project Lead for MTJ, 
and I am sure we will remain on the release train, but - we just lost a 
large part of our "full-time" developers, and we will have to take this 
into account for our 2010 plans.

Thanks again to Gustavo, Diego, David and Hugo for their past 
contributions, and I am honored to know that you plan to stay on the 
project on your own time in the future, even without this being your 
"official job".


Christian Kurzke

MTJ Project Lead