[HarfBuzz] The show must go on...

[Khaled Hosny]

Thanks Behdad for all the work you have done in HarfBuzz and for typography
and internationalization of FOSS, and looking forward to seeing more of
your work. I wish you the best with your life and new adventures.

Thanks also to Ebrahim for all his work and looking after HarfBuzz and I
wish him the best in his new rule and duties.

Regards,
Khaled

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020, 2:47 AM Behdad Esfahbod <behdad at behdad.org> wrote:

> Heya,
>
> I took over maintenance of Pango 15 years ago.  Code in there that I
> wanted to replace turned into HarfBuzz, and the rest is history.
>
> Lately, as you might have noticed, I've been slow to respond to my
> maintainer duties.  At the same time, Ebrahim rose to fill in for me.  He
> has proven to be very capable to replace me at this point, so I believe
> it's time to officiate that.
>
> My involvement in the project wouldn't otherwise change.  I assure you
> all, my change of employment has nothing to do with this.  It's just that..
> it's time for me to stop blocking others' contributions while I focus on
> other things in life.
>
> Ebrahim, thank you for your leadership.  I'm looking forward to seeing you
> make mistakes and learn from it. :)  You are awesome.  I look forward to
> talk to you in person next week.
>
> Cheers,
>
> behdad
> Tehran
>
> PS. Talk about "bus factor".  Or is that called "bomb factor" these days..
> _______________________________________________
> HarfBuzz mailing list
> HarfBuzz at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/harfbuzz
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/harfbuzz/attachments/20200109/9c173e5a/attachment.htm>