Those of you in the PostgreSQL community will have noticed that I haven't been very active for the past year. My new work on Linux containers and Kubernetes has been even more absorbing than I anticipated, and I just haven't had a lot of time for PostgreSQL work.
For that reason, as of today, I am stepping down from the PostgreSQL Core Team.
I joined the PostgreSQL Core Team in 2003. I decided to take on project advocacy, with the goal of making PostgreSQL one of the top three databases in the world. Thanks to the many contributions by both advocacy volunteers and developers -- as well as the efforts by companies like EnterpriseDB and Heroku -- we've achieved that goal. Along the way, we proved that community ownership of an OSS project can compete with, and ultimately outlast, venture-funded startups.
Now we need new leadership who can take PostgreSQL to the next phase of world domination. So I am joining Vadim, Jan, Thomas, and Marc in clearing the way for others.
I'll still be around and still contributing to PostgreSQL in various ways, mostly around running the database in container clouds. It'll take a while for me to hand off all of my PR responsibilities for the project (assuming that I ever hand all of them off).
It's been a long, fun ride, and I'm proud of the PostgreSQL we have today: both the database, and the community. Thank you for sharing it with me.
