ANN: Change in libqmi/libmbim/MM maintainership

[matthew stanger]

Thanks for all your hard work on this project Aleksander. You've really
been an amazing FOSS maintainer and your leadership has clearly had a huge
impact on a lot of people here!

Cheers,
Matthew

On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 9:09 AM Florin <flocirel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to both of you Aleksander and Dan for all the tremendous work on
> these projects.
>
> On Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 17:12 Aleksander Morgado <aleksandermj at chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey hey!
>>
>> We are pleased to announce that Dan Williams (dan at ioncontrol.co) will be
>> taking over as the primary maintainer for libqrtr-glib, libqmi, libmbim,
>> and ModemManager.
>>
>>  From now on, new stable libqrtr-glib, libqmi, libmbim and ModemManager
>> versions will be released by him. The tags in git will be signed with
>> his key, and can be verified (git tag --verify <tag>) after having
>> imported his public key (from
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/ModemManager/0x734614319E26A433.asc
>> or after synchronizing with the openpgp keyserver).
>>
>> Dan is not unknown to the projects, quite the opposite! Dan was the
>> single NetworkManager and ModemManager maintainer when I I joined the
>> project more than a decade ago, before the separate project libraries
>> existed. He wrote the original MM 1.0 DBus API and I happened to be one
>> of the reviewers in the mailing list...
>>
>> Dan currently works as a freelancer through Ion Control
>> (http://ioncontrol.co). This enables him to offer custom integration and
>> troubleshooting services for these projects. This type of engagements
>> allowed me to keep on maintaining the projects when I was a freelancer,
>> so I totally suggest every company interested to try it.
>>
>> In recent months, I haven't been able to dedicate as much time as needed
>> to maintainership tasks. I care a lot about these projects, and I think
>> that a step back from me could mean many steps forward for them. I
>> believe Dan's leadership and new energy will propel these projects
>> forward.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> --
>> Aleksander
>>
>
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