As promised, some news..

Hello folks,

as I promised a couple of days before, I finally have some official news
from Mandriva to announce.

As you perhaps have already seen at [1] (or [2], or maybe [3]), from now
on I will be the one responsible for the desktop distribution. I guess I
don't need to introduce myself - since I started at Mandriva almost
exactly 2 years ago, I've been constantly around on the mailing lists
and on the Planet Mandriva, so I can only say that it is a very big
honor for me to be responsible for this task now!

As for the next steps for the Mandriva distribution development, they
will be defined and carried out in the next few weeks. I know better
than anyone how hard these tasks will be, but as one of my favorite
proverbs say, "A journey of a thousand li starts with a single step". I
know that right now the build system has its issues, the maintainership
of our packages is quite chaotic, many packages have unsolved issues and
the overall landscape is, well, messy. But no task is impossible to
solve having the will to do so, and I am more than certain that we will
be able to overcome all those issues, starting now.

And as I always do, I'll try to do my best to keep you updated on what
is going on.

But what I can say is that it has been a long, long time of turbulence
in Mandriva land, but I believe that this turbulence is finally coming
to an end.

Best regards to you all,
Eugeni

[1] http://blog.mandriva.com/2010/11/05/new-mandrivas-cooker-manager/
[2]
http://blog.mandriva.com/fr/2010/11/05/un-nouveau-manager-pour-mandriva-cooker/
[3]
http://blog.mandriva.com/br/2010/11/05/novo-administrador-do-cooker-na-mandriva/

-- 
Eugeni Dodonov