Martin Nowak is officially MIA

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/17/15 5:38 AM, IgorStepanov wrote:
> He returned back to github and posted some messages. End alarm:)

Glad to hear that. However, the need for two other release managers is 
still there.

The role of Release Manager and "This Week In D" are the two ones 
somewhat special in the community: they're closest to an actual "job", 
in the sense that regularity and professionalism are crucial. You need 
to "show up" and do it. If "This Week in D" is not there on Sunday 
evening, it's not a weekly. If we have no release manager and no 
contingency plan, we can't release. In the future we'll have folks 
depending on this and planning ahead for it.

You wouldn't just not go to work for two weeks and then show up at your 
desk as if nothing happened. This kind of stuff needs some level of 
planning, barring exceptional events. For example, Adam could tell his 
readership "I'll be on vacation next week, so no issue on August 9". 
Which is totally fine.

I'm very happy Martin is doing well but I am disappointed about this 
unprofessional behavior. In fact I could only assume the worst because 
he seemed one of the most serious people I've dealt with, so this came 
as quite a major breakage of trust.

With this we revoke Martin's role as release czar. His github access 
will remain the same for the time being.

Until a replacement is found I will fumble with the release process 
myself, and I could use all the help I can get. In fact it would be a 
nice gesture of Martin to help with the transition. I'll be also 
counting on help from the more process-oriented members of the 
community. One note - 2.068 will be delayed because I have a house move 
to deal with for the time being, not to mention being busy with 
std.allocator and std.collection.


Thanks,

Andrei