[gdal-dev] Maintainer Activities

Tamas Szekeres szekerest at gmail.com
Fri Aug 8 17:43:49 EDT 2008


Bad news :-(


2008/8/8 Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>:
> Folks,
>
> Mateusz has informed me that other commitments (school and MOSS4G) will
> make it impossible for him to spend any appreciable time on GDAL maintenance
> through to the end of his contract at the end of August.  He will also not
> be available for a new contract for a while after that.
>
> He will invoice at the end of August, but I anticipate he will only have
> used
> a modest faction of the allocated funds.
>
> Also, unfortunately, I must report that Chris Howell disappeared and has
> been
> unreachable pretty much from the point the maintainer contract was signed
> with
> him.  So, that is also a "write off", though there was no cost to us other
> than a bit of paperwork.
>
> This does put us back in the position that we are looking for a maintainer
> candidate for short or longer term.  Keep an eye out for good folks who
> might be interested.
>
> Best regards,
> --
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