Most of you probably know this by now, but just over two weeks ago – I announced the end of my involvement in the kongoni project. The reasons were stated in the original post so I won’t be rehashing them here. I did however state that if somebody volunteers to take over the leadership – I will gladly pass it on, and help the person to get going.
The good news is, less than 48 hours later, such a volunteer emerged. We’ve been working together quite hard over the past
few days as I taught him the structures and set up access for him to the various pieces of infrastructure that make up the build systems for Kongoni. By mid-week he had done his first ISO build and by yesterday he was starting to get ready to do git commits and publish his first changes to git-current.
He’ll have a steep learning curve still to get to know the system’s many ins-and-outs like I do but he’s at a working level and progress can once more begin. I am very happy to be able to tell you all this as it means that my greatest regret about leaving kongoni – that it left the users without an upgrade has been resolved.
So I am happy to announce that Robert Gabriel is the new leader of the Kongoni project, he has already launched a rather
spiffy new Kongoni website which I urge you to check out.
For myself, this by no means ends my involvement with free software, least of all with the fully-free-distribution movement, it
merely shifts my direction to something more feasable for me as a person with my particular practical considerations at this time. I have, in the time since the anouncement, accepted an invitation to become a contributor to the gnewsense project. I am slowly learning the ins-and-outs of the gnewsense ideas and my initial progress has been slowed by dedicating time helping Robert get started – but I have as an initial step taking responsibility for adding and maintaining a chromium package for Gnewsense. In the future I intend to get quite heavilly involved – and possibly take over most of the maintenance on gnewsense-KDE as currently there is very limited work done there (largely due to lack of manpower).
So, here’s to the future. The kng is dead, long live the kng.
