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@dmcgowan dmcgowan commented Jun 6, 2025

This is a difficult one for me to open, the early days of developing containerd were so amazing because of his genius and vision. We can just be proud of what we built and look forward to all the exciting things to build in the future. Working with Michael really is amazing and we can hope he stops by and adds a green check mark every now and then.

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## Michael Crosby [@crosbymichael](https://github.com/crosbymichael)

Michael played a foundational role in the creation and growth of the containerd project.
Nearly a decade ago, he architected containerd with a focus on simplicity, robustness,
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"a decade ago" might not be descriptive, as a reader would not know when this sentence was written.

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I can change to "In the early days of containerd"

Signed-off-by: Derek McGowan <[email protected]>
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LGTM .. with reluctance/sadness and only approving because he will have a permanent emeritus invite to come back at will to what he started.

I wouldn't be working on the container/kubernetes stack if it was not for Michael's early influence. His calm and cool attitude, his approach to OSS, his ideas for how to split up the container stack into the parts we have today. We can thank him for so many things, how he championed functional programming, his code reviews were thoughtful with a minds eye of teaching the contributor, ... heck just about every part of containerd has seen his influence.

Thank you Michael.

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I am grateful for having the opportunity to work with everyone involved with this project.

containerd will always be special to me. The code, the people, the focus and care we all have. It's cool to see what has been accomplished.

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Thank you Michael

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Thank you Michael!

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Michael spent a ton of valuable time with me in the early days of Docker engine work helping me acclimate to the codebase, but more importantly the ideas and features of container runtimes that the community was looking for. From that my whole "career" in containers was jump started and I can never thank Michael enough for his help, his passion for doing things right, and of course all the projects that came from that initial work (runc, containerd, etc). Miss having you around and hope you are well, Michael!

@dmcgowan dmcgowan merged commit 00c46e5 into containerd:main Jun 10, 2025
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