The announcement came in the form of a concise e-mail to the gentoo-nfp
mailing list:
From: Daniel Robbins
Subject: Resigning from development role
Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.nfp
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:48:49 +0000
Hi All, As of today, I am resigning from my development responsibilities for
Gentoo. This includes my role as Chief Architect and as manager of release
engineering. I am not appointing a replacement Chief Architect. For releng,
Zhen is doing an excellent job leading this effort and I would like him to be
able to continue his work in this area. Regards, Daniel
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