Leaving Mandriva… again
Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here:
http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/
I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote:
After nearly 9 years, Vincent Danen will be leaving Mandriva at the end of this month. Again we would like to thank him for his commitment and endeavour whilst at Mandriva. We wish him every success in his future activities. As he said himself, he was also largely “a pain in the developers’ collective backsides with his push for better security in the Mandriva products” and added that we may have forgiven him “because his heart was in the right place” 
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“I have worked for Mandrakesoft/Mandriva since mid-2000. I was responsible for security updates for all released Mandriva products, and coordinated the release of all bugfix and enhancement updates as well. In addition, I tried to be creative and have initiative outside the scope of my “day-to-day” work and setup the old MandrakeSecure web site (a collection of security-related articles), the migration from Warlyzilla to Bugzilla 3.x, the migration from Twiki to MediaWiki and the merger of both official and community wiki’s into one single comprehensive community-driven-yet-official wiki. I also fondly remember many tussles with the other guys in R&D over security and security-related practices that made for interesting and aggressive conversations. =)
Linux-Mandrake was one of the first distributions I used seriously, and Mandriva is still my favorite. I will always have a soft spot for it, and fond memories of my co-workers and friends, and the community Mandriva is blessed to have.” said Vincent.
This departure will not leave empty chair, as security is something essential for distribution. We would like to thank oden Eriksson who will be in charge of security team. Welcome back Oden!
Not much more to say than that. I am, actually, extremely happy with how this worked out (Oden coming back). I think it’s fantastic that my leaving makes way for Oden to come back. The only thing I’d like to add is that I’m leaving on my own terms… I have *not* been laid off (again). So this one actually is a good thing (well, maybe not so good for Mandriva, but…). Anyways, to make a long story short… I’ll still be doing security work, and open source stuff, but with a different company. I’ll be wearing a different hat, so to speak. I’ll leave it to the enlightened to figure out what that means. =)
Eugeni
Hi Vincent, best of luck to you in your new job! I only had the opportunity to work with you for a few weeks (months?), but I really learned a lot during this time. A huge thanks for that, and for all your work for Mandriva, security, and open-source as a whole!
We are certainly going to miss you in Mandriva!
All of best,
Jan 23, 2009 @ 09:18:13Eugeni
bedi
All the best for you Vincent, and good luck in you new Job.
Jan 23, 2009 @ 10:48:08Mandriva the distro and the people certainly will miss you
Thanks for your dedication and continue like this.
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Jan 23, 2009 @ 11:19:57Mike
Your hat’s changing color?
Jan 25, 2009 @ 00:45:23Vox
Damn, this is what happens when I’m too busy to read my feeds
Vince, I just want to thank you for all you’ve done for Mandriva through all these years, and for all the help that you gave me, personally…you’ve made the paranoid me a lot happier over the years.
On the other hand…now that I read that you are going to RH…well, I guess I’ll just keep bugging you, since my job is done with RHEL…hell, you changed hats just in time, ’cause I moved my personal desktop to OSX a couple of weeks ago
So…thank you, thank you very much, buddy.
PS: Yes, my email addy changed
Jan 25, 2009 @ 14:39:29vdanen
Hi guys. Thanks for the kind words. Mike, yes.. my hat is changing color. I guess up here it would be a touque… =)
Vox… you never pester. =) I enjoy our contacts, so if you’re using RHEL, I may end up pestering *you* instead of the other way around… =)
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