Farewell to Rob Collins

Sean Son linuxmailinglistsemail at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 14:02:31 EST 2016


Rest in Peace Rob

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
wrote:

> "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at europython.eu> writes:
>
> > Rob was a true Pythonista from the heart. He will always be remembered
> > for his humor, great spirit and kindness.
>
> Robert and I had many conversations about the Bazaar version control
> system, and I owe to him my passion for distributed version control.
>
> When I needed to convince my workplace to try this strange new idea,
> Robert kindly donated his time to visit our offices and give a
> presentation on why distributed version control was better and why
> Bazaar was a good choice for us.
>
> He also inspired me to get serious about unit testing as a way to
> increase confidence in a code base.
>
> You touched many lives, and you are missed. Vale, Rob.
>
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