Hi all,
and also thanks to Marcus from our side for taking over this huge role
the last few years. Many of us have been giving Marcus our best wishes
over in chat (in case you were wondering why this thread was quiet), and
you can join in there as well if you like.
But that's not why I'm writing this email! In fact, my tenure as interim
maintainer has already ended.
We have not one, but two people stepping up into these big shoes:
Josh Morman will become the new master branch maintainer. That means the
buck stops with him on all decisions regarding the future development of
GNU Radio. This is particularly fortunate, since Josh is also the lead
developer on the future GNU Radio runtime (see his talk with Basti B. at
FOSDEM, or our newsched repository).
Jeff Long (you might know him as willcode4) will become the maintainer
for our stable branches (maint-3.8 and maint-3.9). This is another
evolution for us, since we've never had a dedicated stable branch
maintainer. The role of stable branch maintainer is different from the
master branch maintainer, since on those branches, we need to make sure
we don't break anyone's software, rather than incorporating all the new
features.
I am very happy about to welcome Josh and Jeff in these roles, and I
hope everyone else here will join me in doing so. Please give them all
ther respect and help they need to keep pushing our great project forward!
Cheers,
Martin
On 2/18/21 7:13 PM, Marcus Müller wrote:
> Dear GNU Radio community,
>
> at FOSDEM 2018, I was asked whether I'd be happy to take over maintainership of the GNU
> Radio project, something I've been very eager to do; by then, I had known the community
> for a little more than 8 years, and the project had grown to be an important factor in
> what I did on a day-to-day scale. It's been basically become family, anyways, and I was
> asked to play a decisive role in that.
>
> That maintainership came with a role as an software, and what's more important, ecosystem
> architect. That's something I quite enjoyed, as it means that as long as there's direction
> and progress towards that, I got to shape what my favourite software project looks like.
> Pair that with the incredible amount of talent and resources that go into the most
> prolific SDR framework in the solar system, and you've got really quite a grand thing
> going on there! It's really been more akin to asking giants to move hills in a way that
> suits the scenery than wielding a hoe to shape one's own garden. And it's really been a
> fun, rewarding, and hopefully productive time:
>
> In these three years, we've managed to finally move from the 3.7 era to a modern 3.8 era,
> by which we succeeded to get the GNU Radio cart out stasis, and we've even went another
> step and started the 3.9 era, where I hope modern tools and perspectives on software
> development allow GNU Radio to move at a high speed.
>
> This might be a good time to give the authority to be the one to make calls back to the
> project. This means the General Assembly and the GNU Radio board will figure out how to
> find a successor for my former position. For the meantime, Derek Kozel and Martin Braun
> will take that power and use it for the best of the project for the near future.
>
> I'll of course still be involved with GNU Radio (wouldn't know which other project could
> stand me...), but will be able to focus on concrete aspects, which might both be on the
> community side, as well as on technical projects. It's just that we're shifting away from
> me being a bottleneck to development!
>
> I'm very grateful that Martin and Derek found the time to take over this responsibility,
> especially since I know they share my enthusiasm for the project, SDR and its users.
>
> Best regards,
> Marcus
>
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