Thanks for sharing - i think a lot of work coming out of Red Hat over the last decades has been largely "invisible", i.e. we rarely said as a community "Thanks to Red Hat for investing $X in the Bluetooth stack this year"; and only now as some of that support is disappearing we start to notice. :/
Well said, Sam. Honestly, I could never figure out how you maintained so many projects in the first place hadess :)
For someone outside the management chain, it's difficult to guess exactly what this is about. Although, I wouldn't surprised if it were Red Hat responding to the negative PR they get, despite all the contributions they make.
This is critical and I can read the sorrow feelings between the lines. Is there a way the publicly interact with the bosses? Because I think they didn't considered the consequences for Desktop-Linux. And for Fedora and RHEL!
The projects gnome-blutooth, libgnome-volume-control, libgudev, geocode-glib, power-profiles-daemon form a foundation of necessary libraries for Desktop-Linux. If that stuff works users doesn't notice it much, if not users will be not happy with Linux at all.
16 August 2023 at 13:07
As part of the same process outlined in Matthias Clasen's "LibreOffice packages" email, my management chain has made the decision to stop all
upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia
applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and
libfprint/fprintd. The rest of my upstream and downstream work will be
reassigned depending on Red Hat's own priorities (see below), as I am
transferred to another team that deals with one of a list of Red Hat’s
priority projects.I'm
very disappointed, because those particular projects were already
starved for resources: I spent less than 10% of my work time on them in
the past year, with other projects and responsibilities taking most of
my time. This means that, in the medium-term at least, all those GNOME projects will go without a maintainer, reviewer, or triager:- gnome-bluetooth (including Settings panel and gnome-shell integration)- totem, totem-pl-parser, gom- libgnome-volume-control- libgudev- geocode-glib- gvfs AFC backend Those freedesktop projects will be archived until further notice:- power-profiles-daemon- switcheroo-control- iio-sensor-proxy- low-memory-monitor I will not be available for reviewing libfprint/fprintd, upower, grilo/grilo-plugins, gnome-desktop thumbnailer sandboxing patches, or any work related to XDG specifications. Kernel
work, reviews and maintenance, including recent work on SteelSeries
headset and Logitech devices kernel drivers, USB revoke for Flatpak
Portal support, or core USB is suspended until further notice. All my Fedora packages
were orphaned about a month and a half ago, it's likely that there are
still some that are orphaned, if there are takers. RHEL packages were
unassigned about 3 weeks ago, they've been reassigned
since then, so I cannot point to the new maintainer(s). If
you are a partner, or a customer, I would recommend that you get in
touch with your Red Hat contacts to figure out what the plan is going
forward for the projects you might be involved with. If
you are a colleague that will take on all or part of the 90% of the
work that's not being stopped, or a community member that was relying on
my work to further advance your own projects, get in touch, I'll do my
best to accommodate your queries, time permitting. I'll try to make sure to update this post, or create a new one if and when any of the above changes.
"New responsibilities"
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Thanks for sharing - i think a lot of work coming out of Red Hat over the last decades has been largely "invisible", i.e. we rarely said as a community "Thanks to Red Hat for investing $X in the Bluetooth stack this year"; and only now as some of that support is disappearing we start to notice. :/
14 August 2023 at 13:48
Is this the power of IBM?
14 August 2023 at 15:33
Well said, Sam. Honestly, I could never figure out how you maintained so many projects in the first place hadess :)
For someone outside the management chain, it's difficult to guess exactly what this is about. Although, I wouldn't surprised if it were Red Hat responding to the negative PR they get, despite all the contributions they make.
14 August 2023 at 21:30
Q: What do you get when a company merges with IBM?
A: IBM.
15 August 2023 at 12:27
This is critical and I can read the sorrow feelings between the lines. Is there a way the publicly interact with the bosses? Because I think they didn't considered the consequences for Desktop-Linux. And for Fedora and RHEL!
The projects gnome-blutooth, libgnome-volume-control, libgudev, geocode-glib, power-profiles-daemon form a foundation of necessary libraries for Desktop-Linux. If that stuff works users doesn't notice it much, if not users will be not happy with Linux at all.
16 August 2023 at 13:07