From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HtcoA-0004XN-2A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 31 May 2007 05:02:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4V51Os2005934; Thu, 31 May 2007 05:01:24 GMT Received: from beefy.two-pebbles.com (beefy.two-pebbles.com [80.249.110.200]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4V4vunX032167 for ; Thu, 31 May 2007 04:57:56 GMT Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 05:56:59 +0100 From: Peter Weller To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bye Gentoo! Message-ID: <20070531055659.4a20b5d0@Aristotle.01welp.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <73967b650705301835q7a42619fid427e156e894aced@mail.gmail.com> References: <73967b650705301835q7a42619fid427e156e894aced@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Gentoo Foundation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.2 (GTK+ 2.10.12; i486-gentoo-freebsd6.2) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_n5QIz70vz/CBDtoyDxeg3O3"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Virus-Scanner: CLEAN - This message does not contain a known virus. X-Archives-Salt: 5f86d657-fbda-4871-ad2f-fde6b869a980 X-Archives-Hash: 4135d0452300a8321618bb4f684f4625 --Sig_n5QIz70vz/CBDtoyDxeg3O3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 31 May 2007 03:35:20 +0200 "Bryan =D8stergaard" wrote: > It's with a bit of sadness but also a bit of relief that I'm finally > retiring from > Gentoo. >=20 > I've been a Gentoo developer for nearly 4 years now and I like to at > least pretend that I've made some important contributions to Gentoo > during that time. I've had a lot of fun but my frustrations have > grown these past several months and I've been entertaining the idea > about retiring from Gentoo for probably 6 months now. The past couple > months the desire to leave Gentoo have become much stronger and I > think it's finally time for me and Gentoo to go our separate ways. >=20 > I think I've put my "fingerprint" on Gentoo in quite a few important > ways but lately I've come to the realization that I probably can't do > any more for Gentoo. No matter how hard I try fighting for what I > feel is right we seem to end up with petty fights, flamewars or what > I consider even worse - people simply ignore what I'm working hard > towards. >=20 > So I think it's high time that I leave the project and start looking > for another project where I can contribute something important and > not just try to keep afloat in a project that I seem to be at odds > with to an ever increasing degree. >=20 > I'll try to reach all the projects I'm leaving over the next few days > and see if I can pass on my work in a reasonable manner. I probably > won't be around much on irc but if you really need to contact me you > can do so at bryan.ostergaard@gmail.com. >=20 > Good luck to all of you and may Gentoo development be as much fun for > you as it used to be for me. >=20 > Best regards, > Bryan =D8stergaard Sad to see you go... 'tis gonna be strange without you around...=20 Best of luck with whatever you go to do next. welp --Sig_n5QIz70vz/CBDtoyDxeg3O3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGXlWgii3l5JTHwkcRAotDAJ90e77CNmY45wCjv59udB3MISukugCfWxj/ 9itQn76vJsdYIvp7yLbh55U= =MNak -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_n5QIz70vz/CBDtoyDxeg3O3-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list