Re: Retiring from the Core Team

On 11 January 2017 at 16:29, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:

> Hackers:
>
> You will have noticed that I haven't been very active for the past year.
> My new work on Linux containers and Kubernetes has been even more
> absorbing than I anticipated, and I just haven't had a lot of time for
> PostgreSQL work.
>
> For that reason, as of today, I am stepping down from the PostgreSQL
> Core Team.
>
I joined the PostgreSQL Core Team in 2003. I decided to take on project
> advocacy, with the goal of making PostgreSQL one of the top three
> databases in the world. Thanks to the many contributions by both
> advocacy volunteers and developers -- as well as the efforts by
> companies like EnterpriseDB and Heroku -- we've achieved that goal.
> Along the way, we proved that community ownership of an OSS project can
> compete with, and ultimately outlast, venture-funded startups.
>

Thanks for your hard work. PostgreSQL has come a long way since then!

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com