Longtime Ubuntu Developer Martin Pitt Leaving Canonical, Joining Red Hat

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Longtime Ubuntu Developer Martin Pitt Leaving Canonical, Joining Red Hat

Ubuntu developer Martin Pitt who has been with Canonical for the past twelve and a half years as one of the original Ubuntu developers has decided to leave the organization and join Red Hat...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Martin-Pitt-Leaves-Canonical

[lumks]

He was one of the few Canonical people I liked a lot and so I'm happy that he will join RH.

[bug77]

It seems he wasn't a critical component of the team so Ubuntu will not be impacted at all. /s

[theghost]

I really liked his articles and work around QA and testing. Always wondered why he wasn't headhunted by red hat. Congratulations to Martin and Red Hat.

[yturmisil]

No surprise as he was the "Freedesktop" guy in Canonical for a long time and also a systemd committer.

[starshipeleven]

No worries. Canonical will need 20 or 30 more developers to get anywhere anyway. They will be up to full speed around new year, 2028.

fixed.

[cprofitt]

Good to see Martin continuing to work for FOSS. Glad to see him on the redhat team.

[slacka]

Canonical will need 20 or 30 more developers to get anywhere anyway.

Well when you're already on top in the cloud and Linux desktop market, it takes a lot of manpower to go even farther.

[bug77]

fixed.

And then we'll get Unity 8.

[starshipeleven]

Well when you're already on top in the cloud and Linux desktop market, and you are still in the red as none is paying for neither, it takes a lot of wishful thinking to go anywhere.

fixed.