Jellyfin founder Andrew leaves team

Jellyfin 创始人 Andrew 离队

Hello everyone. Effective yesterday, Anthony and I decided to depart from the project, myself as Project Leader, and he as a core team member. This is in addition to the resignation of Andrew on Friday. We leave the project in the very capable hands of the remaining team who have been driving the project for many years now.

大家好。从昨天起，Anthony 和我决定离开该项目，我卸任项目负责人，他卸任核心团队成员。此前，Andrew 已于周五辞职。我们将项目交托给多年来一直推动项目发展的其余团队成员，他们完全有能力胜任。

Joshua: For me personally, it was just time for a change. I simply could no longer provide the effort (mental or time-wise) that the role demanded, and thus I was not performing my duties to an acceptable degree, facing severe burnout, and risks to my mental health. It was time to step aside. Hand-off is ongoing and is amicable, and there is good communication lines, so there is little to no risk of a hostile fork or anything of that nature. Jellyfin will continue for a long time to come, just not with me at its head.

Joshua：对我个人而言，是时候做出改变了。我实在无法再投入该角色所要求的精力（无论是心理上还是时间上），因此我无法达到预期的履职水平，并面临严重的职业倦怠和心理健康风险。是时候退位让贤了。交接工作正在友好地进行中，沟通渠道也很顺畅，因此几乎不存在恶意分叉或类似情况的风险。Jellyfin 将会继续长久地发展下去，只是不再由我领导。

When I started Jellyfin, I thought it would be something used by a few hundred, or maybe if we were lucky, a few thousand, users. We might put a few pet features in, and do a bit of cleanup, but really, I didn’t expect much. Now here we are 7-and-a-half years later, and it’s the #1 FLOSS media server, a truly viable alternative to Plex for literally millions of server administrators and probably 10x that many individual users, and we’ve left our parent project completely in our dust. We’ve proven that FLOSS works, and is in demand. I truly hope Jellyfin outlives me, and I trust those in the team to keep the philosophy and code alive. For the last time, happy watching all!

当我启动 Jellyfin 时，我以为它只会是几百人，或者运气好的话几千人使用的工具。我们可能只会加入一些个人喜好的功能，做一点清理工作，但实际上，我并没有抱太大期望。七年半后的今天，它已成为排名第一的自由开源（FLOSS）媒体服务器，对于数百万服务器管理员和可能十倍于此的个人用户来说，它是 Plex 真正可行的替代品，而且我们已经远远甩开了我们的母项目。我们证明了自由开源软件是行之有效的，且有市场需求。我真心希望 Jellyfin 的生命力能超越我，我也相信团队中的成员能让其理念和代码延续下去。最后一次祝大家观影愉快！

Anthony: My particular reasons are a bit different, so I figured I would post as well. For myself, though I don’t touch much code these days, I do a lot to manage things in the backend and with App Stores/etc. After 7.5 - nearly 8 - years, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to give much of my free time to Jellyfin. My life is changing and I’ve got other things that must take priority. I am fully committed to a smooth transition, which is something I’ve wanted for a long time anyway. Even if the transition takes a year, I’m still down to do that. I want Jellyfin to succeed, and it should.

Anthony：我的具体原因略有不同，所以我想我也发个帖说明一下。对我个人而言，虽然我最近不怎么写代码了，但我做了很多后端管理以及应用商店等相关的工作。在 7.5 年（接近 8 年）之后，我已经很久无法将大部分业余时间投入到 Jellyfin 中了。我的生活正在发生变化，我还有其他必须优先处理的事情。我完全致力于实现平稳过渡，这也是我一直以来所希望的。即使过渡需要一年时间，我也愿意配合。我希望 Jellyfin 成功，它也理应成功。