2017-04-01 11:58 GMT+02:00 Lennart Poeterring <systemdisawesome_AT_gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> As some of you may know, there has been some discussion within the
> suckless project to bring in external talent to help improve the
> condition of the programs. As a result of this management discussion,
> the project has hired me, Lennart Poettering, after witnessing my
> wonderful work on lightweight, minimalistic and simplifying projects
> such as systemd and pulseaudio. I am willing to work with your highly
> bloated systems and help make them compatible with more systems,
> enable systemd integration (eventually they will be a part of systemd)
> while also promoting the use of superior software development
> techniques, such as forcing your project to become a dependency of
> another, to further its use (my marketing team came up with that).
> Especially useful when a simple patch can reverse that dependency
> still works 5 years down the line.
>
> My plan will for fixing the suckless project also involves porting
> most of the code to a high level language where it can be expressed as
> abstractions, such as Microsoft Powershell. Another major step
> includes using docker containers to build and distribute the binaries
> for all suckless projects.
>
> Thanks for inviting me to join this project
>
> -
>
> Lennart
>
No thank you Lennart! I am so happy you are joining. You are exactly
what has been missing in my life. A father figure. A true visionary.
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