Remove webchick from MAINTAINERS.txt

I appreciate this has been a hard decision for you to make. I'd personally like to thank you for everything you've done for the project and the people around it.

You once said Drupal was three things, a content management system, a content modelling framework and a kick-ass community. The community aspect is one of the strongest assets of Drupal, and I think a large part of that is down to you.

I remember you being in my session about contributing to core at DrupalSouth Melbourne and being chuffed that you'd come to listen to what I had to say.

I also remember that you were the person who committed my first patch to core, and I'm sure that's the case for many others.

You have always been an inspiration for 'community done right' I think that if you ever did find more time you would be welcome back with open arms (hey we're all approaching retirement right, that'd be a great way to spend it!)

Thanks for all your inspirational leadership @webchick. You made a massive contribution to setting the inclusive and supportive culture of this community. You will be missed ❤️

Even though never worked with you I've heard a lot about your impact on Drupal and community as a whole! Best of luck!

Thank you a lot for guiding and explanations!
Wishing you a good luck to help build next level of community to adopt for Drupal)

Thanks for all that you are... and for being a great mentor for me and most people in the Drupal community.
I hope our paths cross in the broader open source community.

Very tempted to change the status of this issue to "Closed (works as designed)".

-mike

😭

OK, look: I would not be here if it wasn't for you, Angie. That's the rock-solid truth. You've heard it before, and I'm saying it again. I'll never stop saying it.

I also think I should have RTBCed this. It would have been on-brand for me. 😎

Love, appreciation, and monumental respect. Always.

phen

You have always been an amazing mentor and friend to me and countless others. You will be deeply missed. May we all bring as much care, attention, generosity and love to our work in the world as you do! 🙏 if you do have more time in the future, I can’t imagine anyone could object. Wishing you the best in all your further adventures. Hope our paths cross again many times!

Deep bows of respect and gratitude,
-Derek

Thank you for all your years of dedicated work: for the code, the community, the relationships, everything!

As with many others in this thread... you're literally the reason I dove headfirst into the Drupal community many years ago. Thank you, and I hope you continue to spread the fervor and optimistic open source love wherever you go!

Sad to see you go, I have been an admirer of your contributions and work in the Drupal community for many years. Best of luck and I am sure if things change for you the community will always welcome you back with open arms.

I can't count the many times I have depended on your guidance over the past years, either directly or reading some blog post from years before that removed a huge block (like how to make a table visible to Views in D6).

I'd much rather see a "maintainers emeritus" category added instead of losing the inclusion of a person who has done so much for Drupal.

At present we have https://www.drupal.org/about/core/policies/roles-and-responsibilities/pa... → but nothing in the code base

Thanks Webchick! We love you!

Webchick!

I hope you know you'll be incredibly missed. I hope your current work is supremely fulfilling. We'll all miss you. Go make ANOTHER dent in the universe.

So much thanks to you for your contributions to the community and for personally contributing to my own open source/Drupal journey in such a meaningful way. Best wishes to you as you move forward.

I look forward to meeting you again sometime in the future.

Angie! <3

I am so grateful for everything you have given to this community, and for all of the wonderful ways our paths have crossed. As you know, you were the FIRST person I ever met who did this Drupal thing, and I will be forever grateful for the impact it and you have had on me.

Like so many others, I can't wait to see where this path takes you.

You impact on Drupal is unmeasurably huge and far reaching, it was a pleasure to know you as a human and work with you in various capacities. Here's hoping our paths cross again someday!

I am very thankful to have learned from you and to be part of this wonderful community that you have helped build. Your contributions to this project are immeasurable and your influence will continue to be felt for years to come. If things change for you in the future, I'd personally be more than happy to welcome you back. Thank you Webchick, for everything you've done. I wish you the best of luck with your new endeavors!

Thank you so so so much for all the heart and soul you've poured into our little internet outpost. We're all better for it and we'll honestly never be able to repay it entirely.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

We'll always love ya and we'll never forget ya!

#12++

Thanks for the innumerable things you've done for Drupal! 😊

Thanks for hiring me into Acquia's Office of the CTO ~11 years ago 😊 It was a delight getting to see from very close how you make a difference in so many situations.

I hope this change will give you one less thing to worry about so you can enjoy life more. ❤️

I'm sure our paths will cross again serendipitously! 😄

P.S.: "swooshy wooshy" and other webchick Terms™️ is forever imprinted on my brain 😆

Much love, Angie ❤️ you’ve always been a shining light in the community and it will not dim even if you tried ❤️

Thank you webchick for all you've done!

Your presence and the way you interact with people and the community made Drupal a welcoming place for me - ever since the DrupalCon in Szeged and a small meeting of women in Drupal.

Thank you for everything you've done for Drupal and the community, Angie!

Don't be a stranger!

End of an era. Angie you inspired and taught so many of us. All we can say is THANK YOU! And we wish you the best of luck.

Thank you for everything you have done for the community. It's been great to meet you and learn so much from you. Saying that you'll be missed is an understatement!
Best luck with your next adventures, and I hope ours paths cross again! 😄

Thank you for all that you have done, not just in the direct things you have improved but in the THOUSANDS that you have inspired, mentored and promoted to contribute to this community. That there is a mature, welcoming and impactful community is a great legacy.

Regardless of whether you are listed in contributors.md, your work here will be having a positive effect for many years to come.

Thank you for being such an amazing example and just plain awesome human being! I am sure you will continue to have a great impact on whatever environment you are working in!

Best of luck!!

You've always set a great example. I especially appreciate how welcoming you've been to people of all skillsets and backgrounds - you immediately treat people as equals and make them feel like friends. Thank you for everything.

Good luck to you @webchick!

Thank you for everything you did for the Drupal community and the best of luck at MongoDB!

My Drupal life started almost at the same time as you becoming a more and more prolific contributor.
You've been truly inspiring and an example for motivation and kindness.

I've been honored to meet you when you attended DDD 15 in Montpellier (gosh, time flies...).

You will remain one of my favorite person on the internet!
Thank you, keep rocking! \o/

OMG, EVERYONE!!! 😭😭😭 Thank you SO much for all of your amazingly kind words. This is exactly why this was a really, really tough decision to make. The Drupal community is SO incredibly special. 💖 Each and every person commenting here is conjuring up such warm and fantastic memories from the last, uh, almost 20 years (!). The Drupal community is truly special, and I'm so incredibly blessed to be part of it with you all. *HUGS*

thanks for being part of our community for such a long and impactful time angie!

sharing a picture memory i dug out of the archives
https://www.flickr.com/photos/amazeelabs/25048048062/in/album-7215766433...

Thanks Angie also from me for all you've done over the years. It was always a pleasure to work with you! You'll always be a part of our community through the impact you've had and the memories we share, but I hope that maybe, just maybe some day in the future you'll be able to play a more active role in our community again. Until then, I wish you all the best and may the drop be always with you :)

Thank you @webchick

Thank you Angie for all your wonderful contributions to this community, and to me personally. Without you and a few select others, I'm not sure my path would have gone down the Drupal rabbit hole. Your presence has changed countless lives, both professionally and personally.

I was going to list all the great memories here, but realized that list got fairly long. So I'll leave you with this: a photo of you asking a question regarding the Drupal roadmap at Drupalcon Vancouver 2006. It was there I met you, Ken, Adrian, and a few others that started this whole journey of mine. It was here that you demonstrated that community is what set this CMS apart from the others, making it a central part of the development process around Drupal.

Best of luck on your next journey into the data space and beyond, where you're bound to be a force for good. :) <3

I just found out about this issue.

@webchick Thank you for all of contributions to Drupal and to the Drupal community. I can honestly say that you have changed the course of my life for the better. Thanks to a brief conversation we had in 2012, I felt seen and accepted by a large community at a time where I was trying to prove to myself that I could do this professional software development thing. You gave me confidence, helped me learn to communicate betterm and to feel comfortable taking on new adventures in open source development. The adventures since then have been numerous and the knowledge gained from those adventures have been immense. I could have not persevered down that road without feeling like I was on the right path.

As the years tick on, I think about these adventures differently. Maybe the adventures are the whole point. I mean the willingness to adventure, to discover and to story-tell about what is found. The confidence to head out there and be capable enough to make progress without letting the doubt convince you not to try.

I thank you for helping me discover that. I hope that I can make that kind of difference for someone else someday.

Aw, could not resist to add a photo memory as well. <3

Thank you for all your work building both the code and the community of Drupal through the years. Glad to know you're enjoying something new, but hopefully our paths will cross again. 😊

Always a webchick-fan! 💖 ... Whenever you're in Toronto, make sure to hit walkah and I up! And we'll all see you a Drupalcons or two as well.

I know, I am not supposed to feel sad but gosh for some reason it does. I really miss seeing everyone as well.

Hi Webchick! We met briefly once in Vancouver when I working for Affinity Bridge. I've always admired you from afar, both in terms of your commitment to Drupal and your balanced, kind approach to working with others (witnessed mostly through issue queues on D.O.)

Thanks for being so awesome, and absolutely, do not overcommit yourself to anything.

Much respect,
Shiraz (working with Kanopi Studios, living on Vancouver Island)

So many memories, so much I admire you for, personally and Drupal-ly. Thanks for all the conversations and advice, thanks for all the contributions, thanks for all the collaborations. And thanks for modeling, once again, caring, community, and responsibility.

I remember your willingness and patience answering my newbie questions at a PNW Drupal Summit in Portland oh so many years ago. Thank you!

Thank you, webchick, for all that you've done for our community.

You've left a strong positive mark on the Drupal project. Folks will be celebrating your excellence for years to come. Your inspiration and the welcome you provided will send waves of impact through the project forever. Thank you.

If circumstances change, there is no doubt in my mind that your increased commitment would be cause for celebration.

Thanks for everything Angie, you will be missed! Just gave you a shoutout during my contribution talk at DrupalSouth (with larowlan), throwing back to my first core patch in 2013. Your encouraging comments meant a lot to me then, and definitely helped make me feel like I belonged and was welcome.

Sorry to see you go and hope to see you back sometime :)

This is so sad, but also brings many, many bright memories. I can't be thankful enough for all that you did for Drupal and for me personally: showing me the way to contribution space (both metaphorically AND literally - on my first DrupalCon) , helping to resolve (rare!) personal conflicts, your advises, your energy, your... webchickness!
You may leave MAINTAINERS.txt, but nothing could remove you from our 💖💖💖
All the best on your new path!

Awww - Hell.

Angie "webchick" Byron, you are a class act.

Even whilst stepping down, and stepping back, you are graceful, gracious, and intentional.

The outpouring of recognition, and love is testimony to the impact you've had on us, those who've had the incredible good fortune to know you, work with you, laugh with you, cry with you. Drupal is what it is because of all of us, and we are that, because of you.

What can't be seen here, is the impact on the many other millions who've benefitted from what you did here.

Power to you.

We love you Angie! Thank you for all you've done for all of us that hitched to this wagon for so many years. You pulled us up a hill and we are forever grateful.

A living legend!
Webchick, Thank you so much for all the hard work during these years.

Oh wow, that's the end of an era.
Thank you so much for everything you've done for Drupal!

@webchick, thanks for your guidance over the years!

OMG, I am so sad to hear this, but I'll refrain from marking it "needs work". 😢 I hope you know how much I love you Angie - you are an inspiration, not just for your Drupal-specific work but also for your work with the community as a whole as well (I was at the Drupal Queer BOF in SFO and the first D&I BOF as well). ❤️😭

@webchick Thank you so much. I’ll never forget how the “webchick” tour Lullabot workshop for Drupal 7 happened at exactly the time when I was trying to get back on my feet and back into Drupal development after a major life setback. That’s when I first met you in person. You were such an inspiration to me and I proudly wore my webchick tour t-shirt until it was full of holes and falling apart at the seams.

Your mentorship, guidance, and encouragement during the development of Help Topics as an experimental module was so vital and helpful to me as I was struggling to learn how to become a maintainer myself.

But more than that, you are just such a terrific human being. I miss your presence in the community and I wish you the very best in all your future endeavors.

:hugs:

Best of luck @webchick! I'm glad to have met you in person at Drupalcon Vienna 😉

Oh and don't forget, you're in the infamous Drupal Rap ~ Everyday I'm Drupalin' song!

Adding to the photo gallery, the day I met webchick.

Thanks for all these years of mentorship, inspiration, code and community building. Drupal without you would be just Dru.

Wishing a last minute close(won't fix).

@webchick Sending love and gratitude!

You and Nate were the reason I got hooked on the community wayyyyy back in 2008 when you ran a training session for us newbies at Bonnier. I'll always be grateful for your patience, wide-eyed enthusiasm, honesty and encouragement. You are a wonderful person and while I'll miss seeing you at DrupalCon, I wish nothing but the best for you as you continue this new chapter in your life. Love to you and your family.

Thank you <3

Angie, thank you for all your work in Drupal!
Especially, thanks for dedicating so much effort to make this space more welcoming!
You made a huge impact in how our Drupal community interact, and that has directly improved the project we all work together in.

I hope we cross paths in the future too,
Best wishes on all your current and future endeavors!

A massive thank you to the first maintainer of Drupal 7 from one of the last :)

Thank you / Takk / Danke schön Angie for all your work and dedication to the Drupal project. Removing your name from MAINTAINERS.txt is just a formality. You are still part of our community and nothing would make me more happy than seeing you back at DrupalCon or here in the issue queue. Make sure you stay in contact and let me know if you want to visit in Iceland or Germany.
#DrupalThanks :heart :smilies and all the other emojis I can think of :)

Webchick! Thank you so much for your inspired and inspiring way of being and doing all the Drupal things. Such wit and energy!
Take care, much love, Roy.

Angie, you're a hero and a good friend. I won't say I'll miss you, because I'm sure we'll see you around. Thanks for everything.

Ended up talking about usability testing of Drupal core a couple of weeks ago and specifically remembered the 2008 University of Minnesota test where we first met, still make me facepalm to this day (the results, not the meeting). Thanks for everything and hopefully catch up before to long!

@webchick thank you, to the moon and back, for all you have done for this community!!! You are/were one of the superstars! Your infectious energy, your endless patience, and your calm head did amazing things. I remember first meeting you, at the OSCMS 2007 in Sunnyvale, I assume.

(de-lurking just to post this)

Angie, thank you for all you've done over the years for Drupal and the Drupal community.

Not sure if we've ever met, but I was also at the Drupal Queer get-together in San Francisco; I've devoured your Drupal book, which helped get me up to speed; and you've commented on at least one of my issues.

Anyway, best wishes on your new path.

I've gone ahead and committed/pushed this to 11.x and backported through to 9.5.x, not because I think the issue should stop, but because we should actually let people leave MAINTAINERS.txt when they want to.

I’ll add to the accolades- my initial experience and exposure to Drupal was highly influenced by knowing you were around. I was inspired that women could succeed with Drupal. Thank you for all you have done and all you will continue to do.

@webchick You've been such a role model to me in so many ways. Thank you so much!

Thanks for everything @webchick including helping me with my first contribution day years ago when I was super nervous. You helped to ease my worries with your sense of peace and total care. I will always be grateful for that.

Than for everything you have don for the community and for the Drupal framework. <3

Wow. This may be the most beautiful Issue Queue in the history of Drupal.

<3

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

I know I've been a bit quiet on this thread (in fairness, it feels exceedingly weird to comment on your own farewell post though?! LOL) but I wanted to come back to say a resounding

thank you

to everyone here for your wonderful, kind, AMAZING, and supportive words. <3 I read every single one, and I'm SO grateful for such a wonderful send-off. :') You all are LITERALLY the best, and I can't wait until our paths cross again! <3

I'm just gonna say, can we get a "like" button for issue comments? And maybe "love" too? ❤️