Re: resigning as Base project lead (and as Base team member)

Frank ,

I hope you will be still there to aswer my questions where the answer is 
mostly only in your brains :-)

I 'm sure they can use your knowledge at Impress.
BTW : Iti could  be a good start i you have a look at my sugestion 
<http://api.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=22239> to 
change the size-definitions when importing pictures .Most presentations 
are projected or are used as a "print out' whare in both cases  96 dpi 
is no longer the "only choiche" . There are Beamers and printers who 
need more than 96 dpi,  therefore  the users  have to make a clear 
choiche  in there Impresdoc about resolution there presenations will 
been projected/printed and as consequence to insert pictures with the 
right amount off pixels.

all the best

Fernand
> Hello fellow Base users and developers,
>
> of the ~2000 mails I sent to dev@dba and users@dba (wow! 20% of the
> mails were from me? My mail client must be lying to me ...), this is one
> of the more difficult ones.
>
> Effective immediately, I'll be resigning from the position of Base's
> project lead. Along with that, I will probably significantly reduce my
> contribution to those lists, and definitely to overall Base.
>
>
> Background:
>
> Some time ago, I've been asked whether I could imagine working, on a
> per-project basis, in another part of Sun's [1] OpenOffice.org team. To
> be precise, the talk was about Impress. Well, after some consideration,
> I said I could. But - I don't like the idea of doing things only half.
> If I were to go to the Impress team, I would want to be an Impress
> developer, not half an Impress and half a Base developer.
>
> Consequently, I decided to accept this offering, but only as "full-time
> assignment". Hey, this was *the* chance to get rid of the responsibility
> for all the crimes I committed in Base! :)
>
>
> So, here I am: still with Sun/Oracle, still with OpenOffice.org, but not
> with Base anymore. Well, of course I'll continue to be available for
> consultation (though my bad memory is proverbial, at least for my wife,
> I'll probably remember a few things I did to the code). And the next
> show stopper fix in some code area of mine will probably also be done by
> /me. But I'll stop contributing significant changes to Base.
>
>
> I certainly see this change with mixed feelings.
>
> I started in the Base team more than 10 years ago, in my first job ever,
> immediately after university, still some time before StarDivision was
> bought by Sun, and StarOffice was open sourced as OpenOffice.org. Times
> were interesting and challenging, we did some things pretty well, and
> some things went ... not as good as I would have hoped. Still, Base is
> an important part of my (professional, at least) life.
>
> On the other hand, other challenges lie ahead. Impress is pretty new to
> me, there'll be a lot to learn.
>
> And who knows - perhaps I'll return to Base when the Impress team
> recognizes my inherent inability to understand the basics of their work
> - YMCA color models, or however those are called, and such ...
>
>
> I'm going to send another mail regarding my suggestion for a project
> lead successor (it won't surprise you too much).
>
> Also, I still owe some of you an Apfelstrudel - I hope we can still do
> that at some point in time :)
>
> See you around, the OpenOffice.org community isn't *that* big that I'll
> be completely out of your way ...
>
> Ciao
> Frank
>
> [1] I am probably obliged to tell that Sun Microsystems by now is a
>     wholly owned subsidiary of Oracle Corporation
>
>