Retirement & Goodbye

Hey guys,

I would like to take this opportunity to announce that with this mail, I 
retire from my core team position. In addition, I will take an 
indefinite break on any work on ScummVM. I might be back in the future, 
I might not.

I only want to briefly talk about my reasons to leave. In the recent 
past, I found that ScummVM has become a burden to me. I don't get the 
same joy from working on ScummVM as I used to. As many of you know I 
considered retiring many times before. But this time there is a major 
factor which I realized only recently: I am far too emotionally involved 
in ScummVM. I feel too much responsibility for too many pieces of 
ScummVM to the point where it drags me down so much that I lose any 
motivation to work on it. This has passed the point where it is healthy 
and I need to let go. Sadly the only way I can manage to achieve this is 
by saying goodbye.

I want to thank every one of you for your great work on this awesome 
project. It has been a wild ride and so much fun for the most of it. But 
there is a time to say goodbye before you taint your memory of it.

I considered to be more elaborate on my feelings and reasons to leave, 
but instead I would like to point back to Max's retirement mail from 
22.06.2011. I find myself in the same situation as Max described for too 
many points he made. I think his mail is still an excellent starting 
point for improving the project. There are a lot of points where ScummVM 
made progress. But ScummVM can be even better if everyone involved can 
take a step back and think on how it can be improved in these aspects. I 
hope ScummVM lives long and prospers.

Good luck guys. I hope everyone will have the same fun with the project 
as I had.

// Johannes

PS: I will unsubscribe from this mailing list after I sent this mail. I 
will be still reachable via mail, if anybody wants to talk. But I would 
kindly ask you not to start a conversation about ScummVM work or trying 
to change my mind. Thank you in advance.

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