Time for another change

[Steven Edwards]

Hi All,
I have decided to step down as Project Coordinator and would like to
nominate Aleksey Bragin (Fireball) to run things in the interim until
a new one is officially elected. At this time I cannot contribute the
amount of effort needed to run the project during the audit and have
many things going on as well. Fireball, Ged, GreatLord, Art and others
have been doing a good job getting things on track and I think that
given the current state of things we are going in the right direction.
I am just no longer in a position to provide the kind of leadership
needed. Aleksey has been doing a great job, getting the new SVN up,
providing general direction and helping to resolve issues that have
been coming up. He has also been working to establish a Foundation for
the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal
and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation
system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as
filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations.

I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea
of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need
it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that
our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and
support from outside the project would be much higher.

At this point I view my efforts on the project as being a successful
failure. My ultimate goal when joining was to help make a Windows
replacement/clone (call it what you will) and to see it be widely
used. In saying that I believe it must be feature complete and
dependable, both of which have not been meet yet. I believe they will
be at some point but not during my time of being really active.

In trying to reach that ultimate goal I have some short and long terms
plans, most of which have been a success:

US Foundation - (Failure) Goal help raise awareness of the project and
provide assistance and legal representation to developers on the
project. We have a good relationship with the Software Freedom Law
Center and they have been kind enough to offer us advice however in
terms of real legal help given the current state of the project thats
not going to happen any time soon.

Wine Cooperation - (Success) We share quite a lot of code with the
Wine project and although it is hard as hell to get code in to Wine it
has generally been a positive experience. The Wine tree contains
hundreds if not thousands of minor fixes and features contributed by
developers who have worked on both projects. Certain applications such
as Taskmgr and Regedit were re-licensed by us and have been merged in
to the Wine tree.

Samba Cooperation - (Success) We have not fully ported samba however
we have established a very positive relationship with the Samba and
Samba-Tng developers and they seem very open to the idea of porting
Samba to Windows so that in the future when ReactOS is ready it will
provide a drop in solution. Elrond from Samba-tng has provided quite a
bit of help and ported most of Samba-Tng to Windows already.

Raising Awareness about ReactOS - (Success) When I joined no one had
heard of us. Now almost any technical gathering I go to, 50 to 90% of
the people attending are aware of our work. The GNU, Linux and BSD
developers have for the most part changed their attitude regarding our
project, its goals and future.

Other uses of ReactOS - (Success) This has been the most surprising to
me to watch. While we have not reached the ultimate goal we have seen
fruits of our labor. The NDISWrapper teams come to us for questions
which allows many Linux and BSD users to run Windows network card
drivers. The CaptiveNTFS project created a more effective method of
getting data from NTFS on to Linux. Many of the tools we have
developed and ported are now being used in all sorts of places such as
the FreeDOS port of command.com we reimplemented as cmd.exe has been
ported to WinCE/PowerPC. Besides helping the NDISWrapper and Wine
teams from time to time we are more and more becoming a source of
information for educational purposes.

So with all of that being said I am not planning on totally leaving
however I mainly plan to help write regression tests for Wine in my
spare time and hope that it helps ReactOS. I'm happy to help talk to
people on behalf of the project and to help promote it in anyway I
can. I think the next major thing I am going to try to do is visit
Russia during a conference to meet with Fireball again and I am
willing to continue to help mediate issues with Wine that may pop up.
I still plan on hanging on IRC and the mailing list however I don't
know how closely I will follow the list so if you need something email
me directly.

Thanks

--
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[Aleksey Bragin]

	Hi,
thanks for the faith in me, I will do my best in order to get the  
project to the good future in the shortest possible time.

I have lots of plans - improve and advance the roadmap (I have nice  
ideas since I have some background in scheduling, planning and  
management, I will try to apply my knowledge here), finding  
commercial applications for reactos and its modules and subprojects,  
so the project will get some funding, collaboration with other  
projects - this is always important.

And of course as a developer I still have lots of interesting things  
to do too: continue the work on svn server's abilities (provide per- 
revision iso's, look into continuos integration systems in the future  
too), regression testing to ensure both compatibilty and stability  
too, ntoskrnl+bootloader changes and improvements in the boot phase,  
drivers of course, also i18n support is of a priority for me, and  
certainly auditing the source code.

Personally I have very much respect in Steven's actions as being the  
PC - in addition to what he stated in his email I want to add that he  
introduced periodical Status Reports, and some other interesting things.

I will keep and improve if possible the level of work Steven was doing.


With the best regards,
Aleksey Bragin.


On Mar 19, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Steven Edwards wrote:

>   Hi All,
>  I have decided to step down as Project Coordinator and would like to
>  nominate Aleksey Bragin (Fireball) to run things in the interim until
>  a new one is officially elected. At this time I cannot contribute the
>  amount of effort needed to run the project during the audit and have
>  many things going on as well. Fireball, Ged, GreatLord, Art and others
>  have been doing a good job getting things on track and I think that
>  given the current state of things we are going in the right direction.
>  I am just no longer in a position to provide the kind of leadership
>  needed. Aleksey has been doing a great job, getting the new SVN up,
>  providing general direction and helping to resolve issues that have
>  been coming up. He has also been working to establish a Foundation for
>  the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal
>  and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation
>  system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as
>  filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations.
>
>  I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea
>  of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need
>  it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that
>  our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and
>  support from outside the project would be much higher.
>
>  At this point I view my efforts on the project as being a successful
>  failure. My ultimate goal when joining was to help make a Windows
>  replacement/clone (call it what you will) and to see it be widely
>  used. In saying that I believe it must be feature complete and
>  dependable, both of which have not been meet yet. I believe they will
>  be at some point but not during my time of being really active.
>
>  In trying to reach that ultimate goal I have some short and long terms
>  plans, most of which have been a success:
>
>  US Foundation - (Failure) Goal help raise awareness of the project and
>  provide assistance and legal representation to developers on the
>  project. We have a good relationship with the Software Freedom Law
>  Center and they have been kind enough to offer us advice however in
>  terms of real legal help given the current state of the project thats
>  not going to happen any time soon.
>
>  Wine Cooperation - (Success) We share quite a lot of code with the
>  Wine project and although it is hard as hell to get code in to Wine it
>  has generally been a positive experience. The Wine tree contains
>  hundreds if not thousands of minor fixes and features contributed by
>  developers who have worked on both projects. Certain applications such
>  as Taskmgr and Regedit were re-licensed by us and have been merged in
>  to the Wine tree.
>
>  Samba Cooperation - (Success) We have not fully ported samba however
>  we have established a very positive relationship with the Samba and
>  Samba-Tng developers and they seem very open to the idea of porting
>  Samba to Windows so that in the future when ReactOS is ready it will
>  provide a drop in solution. Elrond from Samba-tng has provided quite a
>  bit of help and ported most of Samba-Tng to Windows already.
>
>  Raising Awareness about ReactOS - (Success) When I joined no one had
>  heard of us. Now almost any technical gathering I go to, 50 to 90% of
>  the people attending are aware of our work. The GNU, Linux and BSD
>  developers have for the most part changed their attitude regarding our
>  project, its goals and future.
>
>  Other uses of ReactOS - (Success) This has been the most surprising to
>  me to watch. While we have not reached the ultimate goal we have seen
>  fruits of our labor. The NDISWrapper teams come to us for questions
>  which allows many Linux and BSD users to run Windows network card
>  drivers. The CaptiveNTFS project created a more effective method of
>  getting data from NTFS on to Linux. Many of the tools we have
>  developed and ported are now being used in all sorts of places such as
>  the FreeDOS port of command.com we reimplemented as cmd.exe has been
>  ported to WinCE/PowerPC. Besides helping the NDISWrapper and Wine
>  teams from time to time we are more and more becoming a source of
>  information for educational purposes.
>
>  So with all of that being said I am not planning on totally leaving
>  however I mainly plan to help write regression tests for Wine in my
>  spare time and hope that it helps ReactOS. I'm happy to help talk to
>  people on behalf of the project and to help promote it in anyway I
>  can. I think the next major thing I am going to try to do is visit
>  Russia during a conference to meet with Fireball again and I am
>  willing to continue to help mediate issues with Wine that may pop up.
>  I still plan on hanging on IRC and the mailing list however I don't
>  know how closely I will follow the list so if you need something email
>  me directly.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  --
>  Steven Edwards
>
>  "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
>  that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo

[Gge]

Aleksey Bragin a écrit :
>       Hi,
>  thanks for the faith in me, I will do my best in order to get the 
>  project to the good future in the shortest possible time.
>  
>  I have lots of plans - improve and advance the roadmap (I have nice 
>  ideas since I have some background in scheduling, planning and 
>  management, I will try to apply my knowledge here), finding commercial 
>  applications for reactos and its modules and subprojects, so the project 
>  will get some funding, collaboration with other projects - this is 
>  always important.
>  
>  And of course as a developer I still have lots of interesting things to 
>  do too: continue the work on svn server's abilities (provide 
>  per-revision iso's, look into continuos integration systems in the 
>  future too), regression testing to ensure both compatibilty and 
>  stability too, ntoskrnl+bootloader changes and improvements in the boot 
>  phase, drivers of course, also i18n support is of a priority for me, and 
>  certainly auditing the source code.
>  
>  Personally I have very much respect in Steven's actions as being the PC 
>  - in addition to what he stated in his email I want to add that he 
>  introduced periodical Status Reports, and some other interesting things.
>  
>  I will keep and improve if possible the level of work Steven was doing.
>  
>  
>  With the best regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin.
>  
>  
>  On Mar 19, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Steven Edwards wrote:
>  
> >   Hi All,
> >  I have decided to step down as Project Coordinator and would like to
> >  nominate Aleksey Bragin (Fireball) to run things in the interim until
> >  a new one is officially elected. At this time I cannot contribute the
> >  amount of effort needed to run the project during the audit and have
> >  many things going on as well. Fireball, Ged, GreatLord, Art and others
> >  have been doing a good job getting things on track and I think that
> >  given the current state of things we are going in the right direction.
> >  I am just no longer in a position to provide the kind of leadership
> >  needed. Aleksey has been doing a great job, getting the new SVN up,
> >  providing general direction and helping to resolve issues that have
> >  been coming up. He has also been working to establish a Foundation for
> >  the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal
> >  and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation
> >  system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as
> >  filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations.
> >
> >  I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea
> >  of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need
> >  it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that
> >  our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and
> >  support from outside the project would be much higher.
> >
> >  At this point I view my efforts on the project as being a successful
> >  failure. My ultimate goal when joining was to help make a Windows
> >  replacement/clone (call it what you will) and to see it be widely
> >  used. In saying that I believe it must be feature complete and
> >  dependable, both of which have not been meet yet. I believe they will
> >  be at some point but not during my time of being really active.
> >
> >  In trying to reach that ultimate goal I have some short and long terms
> >  plans, most of which have been a success:
> >
> >  US Foundation - (Failure) Goal help raise awareness of the project and
> >  provide assistance and legal representation to developers on the
> >  project. We have a good relationship with the Software Freedom Law
> >  Center and they have been kind enough to offer us advice however in
> >  terms of real legal help given the current state of the project thats
> >  not going to happen any time soon.
> >
> >  Wine Cooperation - (Success) We share quite a lot of code with the
> >  Wine project and although it is hard as hell to get code in to Wine it
> >  has generally been a positive experience. The Wine tree contains
> >  hundreds if not thousands of minor fixes and features contributed by
> >  developers who have worked on both projects. Certain applications such
> >  as Taskmgr and Regedit were re-licensed by us and have been merged in
> >  to the Wine tree.
> >
> >  Samba Cooperation - (Success) We have not fully ported samba however
> >  we have established a very positive relationship with the Samba and
> >  Samba-Tng developers and they seem very open to the idea of porting
> >  Samba to Windows so that in the future when ReactOS is ready it will
> >  provide a drop in solution. Elrond from Samba-tng has provided quite a
> >  bit of help and ported most of Samba-Tng to Windows already.
> >
> >  Raising Awareness about ReactOS - (Success) When I joined no one had
> >  heard of us. Now almost any technical gathering I go to, 50 to 90% of
> >  the people attending are aware of our work. The GNU, Linux and BSD
> >  developers have for the most part changed their attitude regarding our
> >  project, its goals and future.
> >
> >  Other uses of ReactOS - (Success) This has been the most surprising to
> >  me to watch. While we have not reached the ultimate goal we have seen
> >  fruits of our labor. The NDISWrapper teams come to us for questions
> >  which allows many Linux and BSD users to run Windows network card
> >  drivers. The CaptiveNTFS project created a more effective method of
> >  getting data from NTFS on to Linux. Many of the tools we have
> >  developed and ported are now being used in all sorts of places such as
> >  the FreeDOS port of command.com we reimplemented as cmd.exe has been
> >  ported to WinCE/PowerPC. Besides helping the NDISWrapper and Wine
> >  teams from time to time we are more and more becoming a source of
> >  information for educational purposes.
> >
> >  So with all of that being said I am not planning on totally leaving
> >  however I mainly plan to help write regression tests for Wine in my
> >  spare time and hope that it helps ReactOS. I'm happy to help talk to
> >  people on behalf of the project and to help promote it in anyway I
> >  can. I think the next major thing I am going to try to do is visit
> >  Russia during a conference to meet with Fireball again and I am
> >  willing to continue to help mediate issues with Wine that may pop up.
> >  I still plan on hanging on IRC and the mailing list however I don't
> >  know how closely I will follow the list so if you need something email
> >  me directly.
> >
> >  Thanks
> >
> >  -- 
> >  Steven Edwards
> >
> >  "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
> >  that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo 
> _______________________________________________
>
>   
Good luck Aleksey and thanks Steven for your great contribution.
I'll do my best to continue as reactos tester.

Best Regards
GGe

[Alex Ionescu]

The King is dead, long live the King!

As someone that greatly pushed for Steven's nomination and election as 
PC, as well as supported Fireball as a replacement, I would just like to 
say thank you for your great work Steven, and good luck Aleksey :) You 
both are the best people that could've been in these positions!

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

[wac]

Hi Steven:

We all appreciate so much years of your hard work and we'll never forget
that. Some of us if not all feel sad about that but on the other side
understand your reasons.

Regards
Waldo

On 3/18/06, Steven Edwards <winehacker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>  Hi All,
>  I have decided to step down as Project Coordinator and would like to
>  nominate Aleksey Bragin (Fireball) to run things in the interim until
>  a new one is officially elected. At this time I cannot contribute the
>  amount of effort needed to run the project during the audit and have
>  many things going on as well. Fireball, Ged, GreatLord, Art and others
>  have been doing a good job getting things on track and I think that
>  given the current state of things we are going in the right direction.
>  I am just no longer in a position to provide the kind of leadership
>  needed. Aleksey has been doing a great job, getting the new SVN up,
>  providing general direction and helping to resolve issues that have
>  been coming up. He has also been working to establish a Foundation for
>  the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal
>  and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation
>  system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as
>  filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations.
>
>  I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea
>  of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need
>  it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that
>  our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and
>  support from outside the project would be much higher.
>
>  At this point I view my efforts on the project as being a successful
>  failure. My ultimate goal when joining was to help make a Windows
>  replacement/clone (call it what you will) and to see it be widely
>  used. In saying that I believe it must be feature complete and
>  dependable, both of which have not been meet yet. I believe they will
>  be at some point but not during my time of being really active.
>
>  In trying to reach that ultimate goal I have some short and long terms
>  plans, most of which have been a success:
>
>  US Foundation - (Failure) Goal help raise awareness of the project and
>  provide assistance and legal representation to developers on the
>  project. We have a good relationship with the Software Freedom Law
>  Center and they have been kind enough to offer us advice however in
>  terms of real legal help given the current state of the project thats
>  not going to happen any time soon.
>
>  Wine Cooperation - (Success) We share quite a lot of code with the
>  Wine project and although it is hard as hell to get code in to Wine it
>  has generally been a positive experience. The Wine tree contains
>  hundreds if not thousands of minor fixes and features contributed by
>  developers who have worked on both projects. Certain applications such
>  as Taskmgr and Regedit were re-licensed by us and have been merged in
>  to the Wine tree.
>
>  Samba Cooperation - (Success) We have not fully ported samba however
>  we have established a very positive relationship with the Samba and
>  Samba-Tng developers and they seem very open to the idea of porting
>  Samba to Windows so that in the future when ReactOS is ready it will
>  provide a drop in solution. Elrond from Samba-tng has provided quite a
>  bit of help and ported most of Samba-Tng to Windows already.
>
>  Raising Awareness about ReactOS - (Success) When I joined no one had
>  heard of us. Now almost any technical gathering I go to, 50 to 90% of
>  the people attending are aware of our work. The GNU, Linux and BSD
>  developers have for the most part changed their attitude regarding our
>  project, its goals and future.
>
>  Other uses of ReactOS - (Success) This has been the most surprising to
>  me to watch. While we have not reached the ultimate goal we have seen
>  fruits of our labor. The NDISWrapper teams come to us for questions
>  which allows many Linux and BSD users to run Windows network card
>  drivers. The CaptiveNTFS project created a more effective method of
>  getting data from NTFS on to Linux. Many of the tools we have
>  developed and ported are now being used in all sorts of places such as
>  the FreeDOS port of command.com we reimplemented as cmd.exe has been
>  ported to WinCE/PowerPC. Besides helping the NDISWrapper and Wine
>  teams from time to time we are more and more becoming a source of
>  information for educational purposes.
>
>  So with all of that being said I am not planning on totally leaving
>  however I mainly plan to help write regression tests for Wine in my
>  spare time and hope that it helps ReactOS. I'm happy to help talk to
>  people on behalf of the project and to help promote it in anyway I
>  can. I think the next major thing I am going to try to do is visit
>  Russia during a conference to meet with Fireball again and I am
>  willing to continue to help mediate issues with Wine that may pop up.
>  I still plan on hanging on IRC and the mailing list however I don't
>  know how closely I will follow the list so if you need something email
>  me directly.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  --
>  Steven Edwards
>
>  "There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and
>  that is an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
>
>  _______________________________________________
>  Ros-dev mailing list
>  Ros-dev(a)reactos.org
>  http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev
>

[crashfourit]

"He has also been working to establish a Foundation for
the project in Russia and I think it would be best to move our legal
and financial operations there. He will be setting up a donation
system and I will be transfering the existing funds to him as well as
filing the paperwork needed to shutdown US operations.

I do not have the time required to try to continue to support the idea
of a US Foundation at this point and I am not sure I believe we need
it at this point. When I had the idea initially it was my hope that
our progress would be much more rapid and our amount of donations and
support from outside the project would be much higher."

We already have the foundation set up, I think it would be unwise to shut
down its opperations. I think it would be best to suspend its opperations,
not close it.