From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (relay9-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.199]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3117F20F7 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:12:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (Authenticated sender: philippe.gerum@sourcetrek.com) by mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D993BFF804; Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:12:19 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=xenomai.org; s=gm1; t=1666537940; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EgTSfKg5c18pBbdLrCgFaMzbEwKCQo6seASMgIOcKfc=; b=YyAbeds54FF/tVhOt+zN5JifACAS4o2GjfhuwkmHwR8otkqYiZB2BSs61cuu7KHG76+m45 XLW5t5YJ1M9iDt9mG7A8uTonC/eDJ8+wUFbQWz0ykxaMDd+hDgzGuHb73/CiiW72AjNBVE aOK8Zl7qhRIb04w+sXMmEyxCJObYXqbkQlYaPXsxfqywGqtFyOydP9zaFHbwfPQS4sqPd6 bBoMxuUegEdKZkFQhsmxXXAYpMjHsV0dX/p/TwzcDgr1jD8hn0G7RObMnKi3kzStg8BC3j YWAos6GSOKAU1Kgsv43/PgYpCy3Xh43TP3J/oJv+GpKTGaAxPTqbc6pPDp9S0Q== User-agent: mu4e 1.6.6; emacs 28.1 From: Philippe Gerum To: Wolfgang Denk Cc: xenomai@lists.linux.dev Subject: Call in absence Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:31:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87v8oa60bx.fsf@xenomai.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: xenomai@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Wolfgang, So you are gone. I spent most of last week reflecting on your departure, how to cope once again with a friend moving towards those new horizons we can't see, what should be said in an eulogy to you. This left me nowhere: I can't comprehend why this had to be you leaving us, I find no relief in trying to rationalize this, I don't know where to start describing your positive influence, how instrumental you have been in several occasions, I'm just receiving E2BIG on and on. At this point of our long distance call, I can hear you saying: "Please stick to the facts, explain the rationale, keep it concise". I'm trying my friend, I really do. When we met in August, the discussion about Xenomai went on for a while, revolving around questions your witty mind likes to challenge me with, such as "where should this go next?". This reminds me that at defining moments of this project's history, you found ways to keep me focused on the essential issues. Coming from the great engineer who founded the U-Boot project, those benevolent hints made a difference, I have to thank you for that. I also have to thank you for the indefectible support your company, Denx Software Engineering, brought to me during my freelance years, sustaining the work on Xenomai decisively. A lasting legacy you will be leaving to me, to all other orphans at Denx and elsewhere, is your irreducible belief that a joint effort of people collaborating openly creates software which makes sense. I suspect that your reasoning goes much beyond software here, the synthesis you achieved between idealism and practicality has always been remarkable. I know, this all sounds like too many compliments to you and I'm not concise enough to your taste. Well, I'm just sticking to the facts, fair enough, right? I did not even mention the fascinating extent of your culture, the way you are able to match issues in ordinary or extraordinary times with teachings from science and literature. By the way, when I offered you those novels by Saint-Exup=C3=A9ry lately, I realiz= ed that you did read them long ago, didn't you? Stories about humanity, honesty and will, of course you knew about them already, living by those principles yourself, accepting those gifts with a grateful heart regardless. Your silent and playful glance at me was in line with a fundamental belief of yours: kindness gives its actual value to smartness. Wolfgang Denk is a noble man. I know I won't make you grumpy saying so, because this is based on rationally considered facts. I'm sure this time only, you may bear with me for the lack of conciseness. Time has come to end this call, hang up that speechless phone, knowing you won't ring back. As often, you listened a lot and I was overly talkative. I wish you fair winds and following seas, --=20 Philippe.