RE: Stepping down as Fedora Jam maintainer

Thank you so much for your contributions, Erich! Using Fedora Jam helped re-introduce me back to the Fedora project and it has been a great platform for learning audio development and music production on Linux. I wish you the best of luck on your endeavors with Ubuntu Studio and Kubuntu Focus. I want to make sure it stays active as a place to test the new Pipewire stack along with various audio apps. I know this is a bit of a controversial topic in audio production circles, but I do believe it can become a better experience if we keep testing and polishing it and Fedora Jam seems like the best place to do this. I would like to learn more about what I can do to keep this running. I looked for more info at Spins SIG - Fedora Project Wiki<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Spins_SIG>;, but it just says “Spin Owners - Need to write expectations for Spin Owners”. Is there anyone I could talk to off-list on what the expectations are and how to get involved? Over the last few months I have learned how to use the various packaging tools, testing and voting on packages on bodhi, modifying package groups, building livecds and cloud images, and so on. I do not use all the packages listed below but might be able to pick up some over time. Thanks again Erich! Cheers, Patrick From: Erich Eickmeyer<mailto:erich@ericheickmeyer.com> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2021 6:40 AM To: Development discussions related to Fedora<mailto:devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: Stepping down as Fedora Jam maintainer Hello all, A little over a year ago, I came to the Fedora project to revive and modernize the Fedora Jam project. I have successfully done that. My vision was that it would be a great way to help develop and test the most recent advancements in Linux audio. Unfortunately, or fortunately, life has a way of changing for the good or the bad. Back in November, I was offered an opportunity that I could not pass-up: becoming the User Experience Director for the Kubuntu Focus brand of laptops made by MindShareManagement. Since then, I have become an integral member of that team, directly reporting to the CTO, CEO, and President, working directly with the PR and Sales and Marketing directors. It has been a blast, and is a project that works directly with Ubuntu and Debian to create, as we put it, the "Ultimate Linux Laptop". As a MOTU for Ubuntu, this was a perfect fit. I didn't come here to be a shill for Ubuntu or to advertise my work, but rather, to illustrate the level of involvement. It has taken up a majority of my time, and my work with Ubuntu Studio is directly involved with the project as well as both Ubuntu Studio and the Kubuntu Focus laptop have similar synergies. Because of the amount of time involved in these projects, something has to give. For that reason, I must step-down as Fedora Jam maintainer. My plan is to continue to maintain certain packages within Fedora (which, admittedly, I've been slacking on), but I am orphaning the vast majority of my packages. Here's the list: Add64 dssi dssi-vst fedora-jam-backgrounds* fedora-jam-kde-theme* fluidsynth fluidsynth-dssi freqtweak gnome-guitar harmony-seq hexter-dssi jackctlmmc jmeters libinstpatch lv2-c++-tools lv2-fabla lv2-ll-plugins lv2-mdaEPiano lv2-newtonator lv2-sorcer lv2-swh-plugins lv2-vocoder-plugins meterbridge non-daw portmidi radium-compressor realTimeConfigQuickScan whysynth-dssi xsynth-dssi *These packages have pagure repos which I'd be happy to hand over to whoever takes these. I do want to thank everyone for the opportunity, including Matthew Miller, Ben Cotton, Neal Gompa, and many others that helped me revive this project. I'm sad to let it go, and I'm not sure what's going to happen to it, but I hope someone who has a passion for the latest technologies in Linux Audio and music production can take it over. Thanks, Erich Eickmeyer