Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jochen Maes]

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Brian,

you'll be missed... can you at least pop by once and i while? always 
enjoyed humping you...
/me 's list off biatchus is reducing...

good luck in the future mate, may you conquer your fears and reach your 
dreams... don't forget "Ne humanus crede"

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"Ne humanus crede"

Jochen Maes                     
Gentoo Linux
Gentoo Belgium
http://sejo.be
http://gentoo.be
http://gentoo.org


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[gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jory A. Pratt]

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As most are aware I was only active dev in mozilla herd. I have decided
that it is time to leave gentoo, which leaves herd unmaintained.
Security team can do as they wish, they do not take the user to mind
when they want to make hasty decision, without first attempting to work
the herd to resolve a security issue that is in the tree. Our users have
depreciated over the last year due to devs and just the direction gentoo
has decided to go so I make the move with them.

Good luck to everyone and were ever there ventures might take them..

Later
Jory

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Joshua Jackson]

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Another one bites the dust
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, Im gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust


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[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Jory A. Pratt]

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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> Hi Jory,
> 
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 09:29:51PM -0500, Jory A. Pratt wrote:
>> Security team can do as they wish, they do not take the user to mind
>> when they want to make hasty decision, without first attempting to
>> work the herd to resolve a security issue that is in the tree.
> 
> Care to elaborate on that?
> 
> Regards,
> Brix

As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls
from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time.

I will be taking a few days away from my packages for personal time, I
will still be available on irc if it is urgent.

Solar:
	"It's even bigger of a shame to see you doing it while making snide
remarks about making hasty decisions when you are walking out leaving a
herd and users high and dry. It's hard for me to respect you for doing
that."

Your right my decision is wrong, the users are the ones I care about
most, my apology to your especially

Sorry to everyone else for letting the project itself down with my hasty
decision of resigning last night.

Jory


P.S
	I will not leave you all the users with noone to maintain the packages
that 98% of you all depend on when it comes to a browser.


.

	
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Ned Ludd]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:33 -0500, Jory A. Pratt wrote:

[snip]

> P.S
> 	I will not leave you all the users with noone to maintain the packages
> that 98% of you all depend on when it comes to a browser.

Thanks.. 

/me guesses you had a few brews when you wrote said mail.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 10:33:58 -0500 "Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@gentoo.org>
wrote:
| Sorry to everyone else for letting the project itself down with my
| hasty decision of resigning last night.

Oh, I'm sure everyone's used to it by now.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Jory A. Pratt <anarchy@gentoo.org> schrieb:

Hi,

<snip>

> As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls
> from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time.

I'm fairly new to Gentoo, but I'd like to help.
So, what shall I do ?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Andrej Kacian]

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:07:45 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> > As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls
> > from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time.
> 
> I'm fairly new to Gentoo, but I'd like to help.
> So, what shall I do ?

You can start by not hijacking mailing list threads. Or am I the only one
failing to see how is this connected to Jory's (retracted) resignation ?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Andrej Kacian <ticho@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:07:45 +0200
> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> 
> > > As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls
> > > from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time.
> > 
> > I'm fairly new to Gentoo, but I'd like to help.
> > So, what shall I do ?
> 
> You can start by not hijacking mailing list threads. Or am I the only one
> failing to see how is this connected to Jory's (retracted) resignation ?

Perhaps there's some misunderstanding ?
(I have to admit, I didn't read all this traffic here, so maybe 
I missed something ...)

As far as I understood the situation:

* He's frustrated about several things (I missed the details), 
  so doesn't like to maintain the mozilla herd anylonger and is 
  going to leave -dev.
   
* Now several people convinced him to stay and continue his 
  work here.
  
Now me: 

* I'm offering my help. 

But: 

* I'm fairly new here and not familar with the development and
  qm process yet, so I need some assistance.


Anything still onclear on my last posting ?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Tuesday 27 June 2006 09:21, Andrej Kacian wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:07:45 +0200
>
> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> > > As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls
> > > from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time.
> >
> > I'm fairly new to Gentoo, but I'd like to help.
> > So, what shall I do ?
>
> You can start by not hijacking mailing list threads. Or am I the only one
> failing to see how is this connected to Jory's (retracted) resignation ?

you cant blame him for seeing part of a thread that was forwarded out

and really, his reply makes sense
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Mike Frysinger]

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On Tuesday 27 June 2006 10:03, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * I'm fairly new here and not familar with the development and
>   qm process yet, so I need some assistance.

http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2
-mike

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Andrej Kacian]

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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:03:32 +0200
Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:

> But: 
> 
> * I'm fairly new here and not familar with the development and
>   qm process yet, so I need some assistance.
> 
> 
> Anything still onclear on my last posting ?

My apologies, Enrico, for snapping out on you.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[Enrico Weigelt]

* Andrej Kacian <ticho@gentoo.org> schrieb:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:03:32 +0200
> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> 
> > But: 
> > 
> > * I'm fairly new here and not familar with the development and
> >   qm process yet, so I need some assistance.
> > 
> > 
> > Anything still onclear on my last posting ?
> 
> My apologies, Enrico, for snapping out on you.

Such things may happen in the summer heat ;-)


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] Resignation

[John Mylchreest]

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On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:21:49PM +0200, Andrej Kacian <ticho@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:07:45 +0200
> Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> 
> > > As I have been swamped with emails, private messages and phone calls
> > > from certain people, I will retract my resignation for the final time.
> > 
> > I'm fairly new to Gentoo, but I'd like to help.
> > So, what shall I do ?
> 
> You can start by not hijacking mailing list threads. Or am I the only one
> failing to see how is this connected to Jory's (retracted) resignation ?

Having not yet read the rest of this thread I'm sorry if this is going to 
repeat anything else thats being said, however...

This is a prime example of one of the reasons which is making people
leave gentoo, either as a developer or as a user. Having someone email
to show their appreciation for peoples work and equally as important to
also be willing to commit their own time to help as well being shot down
with such an ignorant comment is upsetting to say the least.

I suggest the next time someone wants to offer their help you think
twice before you flame for off-topic. However, on that note...

Enrico, 

Please find some reading on the subject here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=1&chap=2

If you need any further help please feel free to join IRC and ask in
#gentoo-userrel

Best Regards,
John

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Josh Saddler]

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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> To my former fellow Gentoo developers and users,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:58:09PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
>> To my fellow Gentoo developers and users,
>>
>> In last weeks council meeting [1] it was decided that the Sunrise project is
>> no longer suspended. I can give a short overview of the current status of
>> the overlay:
> 
> Seeing this I'd like to resign as a Gentoo developer.
> 
> Thank you to all the developers and users who have made the last two
> years a fun period of my life in OSS. You all know who you are. I'll
> miss you guys and gals.
> 
> I wish the remaining developers good luck with keeping Gentoo Linux
> among the top GNU/Linux distributions out there.
> 
> I can be reached at henrik@brixandersen.dk should anybody have any
> questions to the ebuilds, I used to maintain. Sorry about dumping the
> ebuilds on the people who kindly took over when I announced my present
> hiatus - but I'm sure you'll do a good job at maintaining them.
> 
> I have an unfinished draft for a pcmcia-cs to pcmciautils migration
> howto sitting in my home dir - I'd appreciate if someone would step
> up and finish it.
> 
> So long and thank you for all the fish,
> Brix
i'll miss you greatly, brix. You made my laptop and wireless (madwifi) worlds
much much happier places. i'm on devaway, but when I'm back, if no one else has
done it, i'll xmlify your pcmciautils doc -- you were the one who took the time
to explain to me that -utils wouldn't bite this longterm -cs user. :)

good luck in all your future endeavors. hope i see you around irc.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:31:28PM -0700, Josh Saddler wrote:
> i'll miss you greatly, brix. You made my laptop and wireless (madwifi) worlds
> much much happier places. i'm on devaway, but when I'm back, if no one else has
> done it, i'll xmlify your pcmciautils doc -- you were the one who took the time
> to explain to me that -utils wouldn't bite this longterm -cs user. :)

It's already XMLified - it just needs someone to write a few sentences :)

> good luck in all your future endeavors. hope i see you around irc.

Thank you.

Regards,
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Joshua Jackson]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:20:16 -0500 "Alex Tarkovsky"
> <alextarkovsky@gmail.com> wrote:
> | This "no QA" accusation is a complete myth. QA led by actual Gentoo
> | developers is indeed in place at Sunrise [1].
>
> Did you look at *which* actual Gentoo developers are on the list?
>
> Even that aside, if a couple of hundred developers can't handle doing
> QA for all those maintainer-wanted ebuilds, what makes you think four
> people can?
>
Really now Ciaran, if you have issues with those people. Take it up
with them. You've yet to state a reason why it concerns you. Its no
better then the people who are saying that it'll be a huge QA issue
but they are not elaborating on it. As some are aware and some are
not, the basic job I do for gentoo is a QA one. I help to ensure the
x86 arch tree is hopefully as stable as possible. So if anything this
will affect me directly. I however want to see what the project can
do. If it does end up as a problem then it can be killed off, but
doing so before it has a chance to fly is part of what has been
keeping us from innovating as a distribution. It means we're maturing,
but we are still a community project and as such should be allowed to
fly with possibly wild idea's when it suits us.

As well, we are all human, as you are Ciaran. This means that we make
mistakes. However, what you are also asking is to NOT trust those
people who are qualified to be part of gentoo to be able to do the
work and perform it in a decent way. I will not begin to doubt any of
the people who have the gentoo flag as part of who they are because of
being human. As has been said as well, we learn more from the mistakes
we make then somehow having avoided it without realizing why.

Thirdly, I know one of the issues with one of the leaders of the
project, is the fact that they are not a ebuild developer. I'd like to
have them take the second quiz simply to prove that they have the
knowledge to be trusted to review the ebuilds. Course with the number
that he's seen I'm sure he's helped take care of things that would
make the rest of us go...how did they think that was ever a good idea.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jakub Moc]

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Bryan A~stergaard wrote:
> Left in a huff? I'm sorry but I don't think you fully understand the
> reasons for Brix leaving. After Sunrise was suspended by the council
> there was a meeting [1] between brix, the sunrise leads (genstef and
> jokey), christel (representing user relations), myself and one or two
> other people that showed an interest in the meeting (primarily antarus).
> 
> At that meeting we tried to figure out what the outstanding issues were
> and how they could be solved. The outcome of the meeting was that
> sunrise was to stay as an unofficial project until those issues were
> solved - I'd like to remind everybody that genstef and jokey agreed on
> this. Furthermore Brix was to write up his proposal on how to reach the
> goals of sunrise in a more acceptable way (to him and other people
> uneasy with the current sunrise project).
> 
> Before this could even happen genstef took upon himself to tell the
> council that all outstanding problems have been solved although I
> haven't seen *any* progress regarding the issues raised on that meeting.
> 
> I don't know if genstefs memory is just extremely bad or if he
> purposefully misled the council or something entirely different. That's
> not really my point either.
> 
> *This is my point* - Brix sees sunrise in it's current form as a project
> with great potential to harm Gentoo. He agrees with the goals but not
> the implementation. And no matter how hard he works at solving the
> problems he sees genstef, jokey and the council have mostly ignored him
> by unsuspending the project. I certainly don't blame Brix if he sees no
> further possibility for correcting those problems and instead chooses to
> leave the project.

Well, huh??? Looks like you've missed the -dev ML thread altogether, as
did brix (despite it was himself who started it, as Mike has already
pointed out). Brix didn't write any proposal and didn't raise any
specific objections when called for, then he goes to leave b/c the
project has been unsuspended? Sorry, I really fail to see how is this
council's fault (or any Sunrise project member's fault for that matter).


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Bryan Ãstergaard]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 11:21:17AM +0200, Jakub Moc wrote:
> Bryan A~stergaard wrote:
> Well, huh??? Looks like you've missed the -dev ML thread altogether, as
> did brix (despite it was himself who started it, as Mike has already
> pointed out). Brix didn't write any proposal and didn't raise any
> specific objections when called for, then he goes to leave b/c the
> project has been unsuspended? Sorry, I really fail to see how is this
> council's fault (or any Sunrise project member's fault for that matter).
> 
Issues had been raised again and again and all involved parties had
agreed on several issues still not being fixed. At this point I must say
that I no longer care one way or another about Sunrise - it doesn't seem
to make any difference anyway.

But what I wanted to say was that I certainly understand Brix decision
to leave the project. No matter if you think Sunrise is a great idea or
not, I don't think anybody can say that it's been handled in a proper
way.

That's my opinion anyway and from talking to brix about all this I
believe his biggest reason for leaving have been the way Sunrise have
been forced through despite the many complaints raised (and still not
fixed).

Regards,
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jakub Moc]

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Bryan A~stergaard wrote:
 > That's my opinion anyway and from talking to brix about all this I
> believe his biggest reason for leaving have been the way Sunrise have
> been forced through despite the many complaints raised (and still not
> fixed).
> 
> Regards,
> Bryan ?stergaard

Well, such as? That "Oh, it's a horrible idea that will become a QA
nightmare, Sunrise needs to die" that I keep hearing over and over again
is not something that can be addressed, sorry - only time will tell.
Beyond that, I can't see any new *specific* objections raised that
actually *could* be addressed. Neither in the previous thread, nor in
the current one.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Christian Andreetta]

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Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:50 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>> My concern is beyond me.  As I  stated I know enough about what to expect IF I 
>> use sunrise.  But many do not and with it becoming official people figure 
>> it's gentoo and when it breaks Gentoo suffers.  Gentoo has a reputation as a 
>> good solid, stable distro.  As user and big fan of Gentoo I'm concerned - why 
>> couldn't sunrise have stayed unoffical like BMG.  Why does it have to be 
>> official?  Gentoo can choose to do what it feels is right and I will do the 
>> same.

It has just to be put clear that in this case "official" doesn't mean
"solid", "right", "tested by our best QA", but simply "preferred". That
is, I think we're not speaking of "official", but "_basically_ revised"
and "encouraged".

Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for
Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't
have other choices* but

1) an endless wait for an open bug
2) becoming dev for the good of all :-)
3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your
efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your
latest patches/revision bumps?

Statistically you end up to 3). We just need something to reduce this
"statistically".

> BMG has, from day 1, been marginalised in the Gentoo community.  I
> always fancied that they should've been folded into the larger Gentoo
> projects and become what Sunrise is today.  The way I read you, your
> fear is based on the possibility of some future perception by an unknown
> number of people.  Sunrise's idea is that stuff gets checked and
> re-checked and remains accessible -- have you read through their site
> and their commit histories and changesets?  They're not exactly
> dawdling.
> 
> As for Gentoo's reputation, I'm actually pleasantly surprised to hear it
> characterised that way :)  If it has that reputation, then it will
> actually take a lot to break that.  I'm surprised that ~keywords didn't
> already break it.   I agree that the official portage tree is a QA
> nightmare. Sunrise seems to be nipping that nightmare for a future date
> -- ie by allowing people to commit and perform peer reviews, they're
> grooming the next generation of developers to look at QA from the
> outset, instead of as an afterthought.

I'm just adding another good point to sunrise (or whatever will be a
revised "preferred centralized repo of packages not officially
supported"): you have another way to benefit of retired devs who just
don't have the time to be responsible for the bugs of a package in an
arch they don't know, but have the interest and the competence to add
packages to an unofficial overlay.

I'll be soon one of those devs: maybe some of the packages I maintain
will finish as "maintainer-wanted". And, in this case, they could
eventually end up in the sunrise overlay: a way for the users to help users.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Giacomo Cariello]

Roy Bamford wrote:
> Sunrise attempts to provide the next part of the school system down.
A school system should have a well defined syllabus, explicit
educational targets and an objective evaluation system. If Gentoo is
going to run a Gentoo School with courses for developers, that sounds
cool (and may relieve some burden from the developers mentors). Probably
its objectors just want the project to formalize its methods before
official launch.

In regard to the "rule of thumb" you suggest to verify average quality,
I wouldn't consider a reliable way to assess quality. I suppose that
part of responsibility of Gentoo towards their users consist in "using
caution" in their choices. Caution suggest that you cannot suppose the
long-term effects by measuring the current, limited, 150-ebuilds version
of this project. Also, it's better to debate this path now, rather than
wait until we realize Gentoo cannot handle at least minimal safety of a
100000-ebuilds user-contributed overlay used by hundreds/thousands of
people and throw it in the dustbin with a "we said that if it doesn't
work, we kill it" quote. It would be a lack of respect towards the
efforts of users that contributed to it.

- Giacomo 'jwk' Cariello


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Roy Bamford]

On 2006.07.31 12:01, Giacomo Cariello wrote:
> Roy Bamford wrote:
> > Sunrise attempts to provide the next part of the school system  
> down. A school system should have a well defined syllabus, explicit
> educational targets and an objective evaluation system. If Gentoo is
> going to run a Gentoo School with courses for developers, that sounds
> cool (and may relieve some burden from the developers mentors).

Agreed.

> Probably its objectors just want the project to formalize its methods  
> before official launch.

Possibly.

> 
> In regard to the "rule of thumb" you suggest to verify average
> quality,
> I wouldn't consider a reliable way to assess quality. I suppose that
> part of responsibility of Gentoo towards their users consist in  
> "using caution" in their choices. Caution suggest that you cannot  
> suppose the long-term effects by measuring the current, limited,  
> 150-ebuilds version of this project.

You can only examine now, what exists now. The long term effects can be  
assessed by repeated examinations, much like holders of ISO 9000 (a  
quality standard) undergo to retain their accreditation.
Going off on a wild tangent for a moment perhaps sunrise and other  
overlays could be accredited by Gentoo using such a system of regular  
and surprise checks.

> Also, it's better to debate this path now, rather
> than wait until we realize Gentoo cannot handle at least minimal  
> safety of a 100000-ebuilds user-contributed overlay used by  
> hundreds/thousands of people and throw it in the dustbin with a "we  
> said that if it doesn't work, we kill it" quote.
This in not a realistic claim - look at the way the official portage  
tree has grown with time and that changes made to cope with that  
growth. Your statement implies that sunrise starts out badly, gets  
worse but nobody notices for a long time. That's simply not realistic.
Sunrise will evolve - like any other OSS project.

I would expect sunrise to spawn both devs and ebuilds and to see the  
more popular ebuilds moved into the official tree as the dev population  
can cope. That's not much different from the present process, where  
ebuilds are in b.g.o. However b.g.o doesn't interactively encourage  
would be devs.

> It would be a lack of respect towards the efforts of users that  
> contributed to it.
Yes it would and it won't happen.

> 
> - Giacomo 'jwk' Cariello
> 
> 
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Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Bryan Ãstergaard]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote:
> 
> Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for
> Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't
> have other choices* but
> 
> 1) an endless wait for an open bug
> 2) becoming dev for the good of all :-)
> 3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your
> efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your
> latest patches/revision bumps?
4) Bash devs to add your ebuild
5) Use proxy maintaining (as been suggested several times)

Proxy maintaining already happens but some people claims not enough
users and devs use this. Personally I'd love to see proxy maintaining
advertised which would probably help proxy maintaining take off and
offer a way for users to (fairly easy) contribute to the tree and be
sure their ebuilds ends up in the tree.

> 
> Statistically you end up to 3). We just need something to reduce this
> "statistically".
> 
See above. I'd love for more users to end up at 5).

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Denis Dupeyron]

On 7/31/06, Joshua Jackson <tsunam@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Thirdly, I know one of the issues with one of the leaders of the
> project, is the fact that they are not a ebuild developer. I'd like to
> have them take the second quiz simply to prove that they have the
> knowledge to be trusted to review the ebuilds. Course with the number
> that he's seen I'm sure he's helped take care of things that would
> make the rest of us go...how did they think that was ever a good idea.

What if a well respected ebuild developper that supports the project
volunteered to join it ? It could add some credibility to it and
reduce the number of reasons that some people could shout about. I'm
concerned that those against sunrise will claim that passing the end
quizz doesn't give the sunrise leaders any more experience and
credibility overnight.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Ciaran McCreesh]

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:08:12 +0200 "Denis Dupeyron"
<calchan@gentoo.org> wrote:
| What if a well respected ebuild developper that supports the project
| volunteered to join it ?

Get a half dozen and I suspect a lot of the concern will be reduced
substantially...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Doug Goldstein]

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Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> To my former fellow Gentoo developers and users,
> 
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 11:58:09PM +0200, Stefan Schweizer wrote:
>> To my fellow Gentoo developers and users,
>>
>> In last weeks council meeting [1] it was decided that the Sunrise project is
>> no longer suspended. I can give a short overview of the current status of
>> the overlay:
> 
> Seeing this I'd like to resign as a Gentoo developer.
> 
> Thank you to all the developers and users who have made the last two
> years a fun period of my life in OSS. You all know who you are. I'll
> miss you guys and gals.
> 
> I wish the remaining developers good luck with keeping Gentoo Linux
> among the top GNU/Linux distributions out there.
> 
> I can be reached at henrik@brixandersen.dk should anybody have any
> questions to the ebuilds, I used to maintain. Sorry about dumping the
> ebuilds on the people who kindly took over when I announced my present
> hiatus - but I'm sure you'll do a good job at maintaining them.
> 
> I have an unfinished draft for a pcmcia-cs to pcmciautils migration
> howto sitting in my home dir - I'd appreciate if someone would step
> up and finish it.
> 
> So long and thank you for all the fish,
> Brix

Brixy!! You can't leave. Who else will I ramble to on IRC after coming
back from the bars? Who else will fix my wireless adapter?

I feel so cold and alone!!

But seriously, you'll be missed. :(

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Henrik Brix Andersen]

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On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 08:53:00PM -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Brixy!! You can't leave. Who else will I ramble to on IRC after coming
> back from the bars? Who else will fix my wireless adapter?

You can still ramble to me on IRC - it's not like I'm dropping off the
face of the Earth. As for your wireless adapter... if you want me to
help with that you'd have to change your operating system ;)

> I feel so cold and alone!!

Got dumped again, eh? ;)

> But seriously, you'll be missed. :(

Thank you.

Regards,
Brix
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Carsten Lohrke]

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On Monday 31 July 2006 13:01, Christian Andreetta wrote:
> Seemant Kulleen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:50 -0400, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> >> My concern is beyond me.  As I  stated I know enough about what to
> >> expect IF I use sunrise.  But many do not and with it becoming official
> >> people figure it's gentoo and when it breaks Gentoo suffers.  Gentoo has
> >> a reputation as a good solid, stable distro.  As user and big fan of
> >> Gentoo I'm concerned - why couldn't sunrise have stayed unoffical like
> >> BMG.  Why does it have to be official?  Gentoo can choose to do what it
> >> feels is right and I will do the same.
>
> It has just to be put clear that in this case "official" doesn't mean
> "solid", "right", "tested by our best QA", but simply "preferred". That
> is, I think we're not speaking of "official", but "_basically_ revised"
> and "encouraged".

And that's why it has been announced as the best since sliced bred - urging 
all users to give it a try, but with the option to point with the finger on 
them, laughing "Ha, ha, you should have known dumb nuts.", later. Brett is 
absolutely right with his previous emails.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Richard Fish]

On 8/1/06, Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> And that's why it has been announced as the best since sliced bred - urging
> all users to give it a try, but with the option to point with the finger on
> them, laughing "Ha, ha, you should have known dumb nuts.", later. Brett is
> absolutely right with his previous emails.

Nothing that I have read about sunrise, either in GWN, their project
pages, or the FAQ, has given me the impression that they are "urging
all users to give it a try".  There is certainly some advertising
about it, as would be appropriate for any new Gentoo project.  But
nothing that I would say gives the slightest hint of "pushiness".

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Carsten Lohrke]

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On Wednesday 02 August 2006 05:50, Richard Fish wrote:
> Nothing that I have read about sunrise, either in GWN, their project
> pages, or the FAQ, has given me the impression that they are "urging
> all users to give it a try".  There is certainly some advertising
> about it, as would be appropriate for any new Gentoo project.  But
> nothing that I would say gives the slightest hint of "pushiness".

Well, as long as there's no big fat warning that there's not support, no 
security team backing it up - and that the overlay is not meant for general 
consumption, it's very problematic. On the contrary, it's written down that 
the overlay is meant to make a wide range of ebuilds easily available - 
without any measures to secure its consumers.


Carsten

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Paul de Vrieze]

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On Monday 31 July 2006 14:53, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote:
> > Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for
> > Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't
> > have other choices* but
> >
> > 1) an endless wait for an open bug
> > 2) becoming dev for the good of all :-)
> > 3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your
> > efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your
> > latest patches/revision bumps?
>
> 4) Bash devs to add your ebuild

Which one exactly. The point is that it is not on a dev's turf.

Paul

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Bryan Ãstergaard]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:49:31AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Monday 31 July 2006 14:53, Bryan Ãstergaard wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:01:20PM +0200, Christian Andreetta wrote:
> > > Many users (and I'm both a dev *and* a user) just could do much for
> > > Gentoo, but when you're interested in a niche sector package, you *don't
> > > have other choices* but
> > >
> > > 1) an endless wait for an open bug
> > > 2) becoming dev for the good of all :-)
> > > 3) just use your personal overlay, without sharing the results of your
> > > efforts. If the bug in 1) is still open, why updating it with your
> > > latest patches/revision bumps?
> >
> > 4) Bash devs to add your ebuild
> 
> Which one exactly. The point is that it is not on a dev's turf.
> 
Many ebuilds sitting in bugzie naturally falls under one herd or
another. And if you can't find any developer that should (likely) be
maintaining the ebuild you can always ask in the irc channels geared
towards users (#gentoo-bugs, #gentoo-dev-help, even #gentoo) or ask on
gentoo-dev ML. Lots of ways to get developers attentions imo.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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[gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Tim Yamin]

All,

I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer
tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months
the ability to keep Gentoo a coherent and smooth environment has been
eroded and hindered at practically every opportunity by bad decisions,
staff, and in some cases, downright incompetence.

It transpires that from the recent barrage of developers leaving, the
disquiet and increasing lack of congruence of the developer (and to
some extent also the user) communities that something is inherently
wrong. I'm leaving it as an exercise to the reader to explore exactly
what (if anything) is wrong.

Seeing as we have failed to address these challenges over the course
of many months and as a result of continuous recent discussions (which
half the time end up being totally redundant due to miscommunication)
both on -core and on -dev, it is evident that something is wrong with
the core management (or lack thereof, depending on your point of view).

I no longer have the commitment or desire to follow the road in
solving the above challenges. I'm not really sure whether there even
is a solution. I'd like to add that I have really enjoyed my time in
the past three years working with Gentoo and helping to contribute to
the then vibrant and dynamic community.

Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there
for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and
I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally
come for me.

I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank
all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable.

So long, and thanks for all the fish...

Tim.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Stuart Herbert]

Hi Tim,

On 10/7/06, Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank
> all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable.

All the very best with whatever you do next.  It's been a real
pleasure working with you on Gentoo, and at the Gentoo UK conferences,
and you'll be sorely missed.

Best regards,
Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Andrew Gaffney]

Tim Yamin wrote:
> I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank
> all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable.
> 
> So long, and thanks for all the fish...

I can't say this was unexpected, but I'm sorry to see you go. Are you going to 
continue to contribute to various projects you've worked on such as gk4?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Roy Bamford]

On 2006.10.07 22:19, Tim Yamin wrote:
> All,
> 
[snip]
> 
> So long, and thanks for all the fish...
> 
> Tim.
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> 
> 
Tim,

I'm sorry to see you depart.
Good luck for the future, see you around on irc.

Regards,

Roy Bamford
(NeddySeagoon)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Peter Weller]

Tim Yamin wrote:
> So long, and thanks for all the fish...
>
> Tim.
>   

Well, I've already given you my best wishes for the future, but it can't 
hurt to do it twice :P
Have fun doing whatever it is you'll be doing with yourself

Take care,
Peter Weller
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Tom Wesley]

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On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 09:19:14PM +0000, Tim Yamin <plasmaroo@gentoo.org> wrote:
> All,
> 
> I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer
> tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months
> 

Sorry to see you leave.
Good luck.


tomaw.

> 

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Danny van Dyk]

Hi Tim,

Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2006 23:19 schrieb Tim Yamin:
> I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer
> tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months
> the ability to keep Gentoo a coherent and smooth environment has been
> eroded and hindered at practically every opportunity by bad
> decisions, staff, and in some cases, downright incompetence.

I'm sorry to see you go, but i cannot agree with you here.
More below.

> It transpires that from the recent barrage of developers leaving, the
> disquiet and increasing lack of congruence of the developer (and to
> some extent also the user) communities that something is inherently
> wrong. I'm leaving it as an exercise to the reader to explore exactly
> what (if anything) is wrong.
Honestly, i think you're showing a weak shell here, but that's my 
personal opinion. QA and council asked you to do something you didn't 
like to do, and i still don't understand your reasoning.
Please think about this decision over a week or so.

Kloeri: Please don't file a retirement bug immediately.

> Seeing as we have failed to address these challenges over the course
> of many months and as a result of continuous recent discussions
> (which half the time end up being totally redundant due to
> miscommunication) both on -core and on -dev, it is evident that
> something is wrong with the core management (or lack thereof,
> depending on your point of view).
>
> I no longer have the commitment or desire to follow the road in
> solving the above challenges. I'm not really sure whether there even
> is a solution. I'd like to add that I have really enjoyed my time in
> the past three years working with Gentoo and helping to contribute to
> the then vibrant and dynamic community.

As have I while working with you, especially and mainly in release 
engineering.

> Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there
> for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and
> I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally
> come for me.
As longas you stay away from microphones ;-)


> I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to
> thank all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so
> enjoyable.
Thank you very much

> So long, and thanks for all the fish...
I think you oughta know that I'm feeling very depressed :-(

Danny, who hopes to see you again next year!
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Donnie Berkholz]

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Tim Yamin wrote:
> Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there
> for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and
> I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally
> come for me.
> 
> I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank
> all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable.

Tim,

Thanks for all of the hard work you've put into Gentoo. I know it isn't
always appreciated, so I want to make sure you know how valuable you've
been.

Thanks,
Donnie


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Wernfried Haas]

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Seeing you go under these circumstances really worries me. Perhaps you
want to reconsider it - if not: All the best!

cheers,
	Wernfried

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Shyam Mani]

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Tim Yamin wrote:

> So long, and thanks for all the fish...

Tim,

I'm very sad to see you leave Gentoo. All the best for your future
endeavors and do keep in touch.

Regards,

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Steve Dibb]

Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Tim Yamin wrote:
> 
>>Lately however, the "fun" and the motivation just hasn't been there
>>for the reasons I've outlined above; it's finally taken its toll, and
>>I believe the time to move onto new projects and ventures has finally
>>come for me.
>>
>>I would like to wish all of you the very best, and would like to thank
>>all of you who have (and haven't) made my time here so enjoyable.
> 
> 
> Tim,
> 
> Thanks for all of the hard work you've put into Gentoo. I know it isn't
> always appreciated, so I want to make sure you know how valuable you've
> been.

I couldn't have said it better myself.  Good luck with everything.

Steve
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jason Huebel]

On Saturday 07 October 2006 4:19 pm, Tim Yamin wrote:
> All,
>
> I'm afraid that I find that my position with Gentoo is no longer
> tenable. Over the past year and especially over the past few months
> the ability to keep Gentoo a coherent and smooth environment has been
> eroded and hindered at practically every opportunity by bad decisions,
> staff, and in some cases, downright incompetence.

Which is all the more reason to stay on and work toward being in a position to 
change things.  If all the competent people leave, then who's left to run 
things?

Although I've stayed in the background for some time now, I have been watching 
the direction that Gentoo is taking.  I'm not at the point where I think 
Gentoo (as a community) is a lost cause. Far from it. But I do think that the 
Gentoo community has lacked some focus and direction in the past couple of 
years.  Certainly, individual projects have focused on the core goals they 
have. And that's a great thing. But it seems that there a lack of cohesive 
strategy at higher levels.  Gentoo management has become watered down and 
less effective.

Here's where I'm probably going to draw out the typically trolls who think 
it's their way or the highway, but let me preface my next comment by saying 
that I have the utmost respect for those who are working within the current 
management framework. However, I think the Gentoo council-- as the top level 
of the management structure-- consistently fails the Gentoo community in the 
area of focus and vision.  A project the size of Gentoo needs a leader, not 
just a governing council.  Someone who embodies the vision of the 
distribution and provides management focus.  While some of you may disagree, 
I believe the Gentoo community had that focus under drobbins.  I'm not saying 
that we install Daniel as the supreme dictator of Gentoo. I'm just saying 
that /someone/ should be elected as "the buck stops here" guy (or girl). A 
person who decides what the goals are for the distribution and (at a high 
level) manages the development to that end.  Someone who has the authority to 
say "no". The council would act as an advising board to that person, but this 
leader would have the power to decide what the priorities are in Gentoo.

Of course, that person should be someone who is well respected within the 
community and active on a daily basis with development. So obviously, I'm not 
nominating myself. :-) I think the 2006 Gentoo Council results[1] represent a 
really good cross-section of people who would do a fine job. However, I think 
the Gentoo lead should be a seperate entity.

Thoughts, comments? This is not an attempt to start an argument or flamewar. 
These are frank, sincere comments from a concerned developer.

Anyway, I'm sorry to see you go plasmaroo. I can understand your frustration. 
But it's a shame that good developers feel that their only recourse is to 
resign.

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"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Caleb Cushing]

I agree. what we're seeing is a failure of democracy. at first it
works. then people have opinions. then bickering starts. and no one
has the power to stamp there foot down and say this is our direction.
It doesn't work very well. at the least we need a president like
figure. of course I'm not against a supreme dictator as long as they
keep looking forward, and doing good.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Nathan Sullivan]

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I could see that kinda working IMO Caleb...

a president-like figure to run things, elected id say would be best, maybe 1
year terms or something, cannot be overruled but elections can be called
early if some overly high percentage of council/others express concerns
about the person... otherwise their word is final, see that would at least
give things direction, and the person is removable but only with some kinda
concensus among devs... id also think this person should be independent of
groups such as the council/devrel/etc if so...

just my 0.02 :)

Nathan.

On 10/14/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I agree. what we're seeing is a failure of democracy. at first it
> works. then people have opinions. then bickering starts. and no one
> has the power to stamp there foot down and say this is our direction.
> It doesn't work very well. at the least we need a president like
> figure. of course I'm not against a supreme dictator as long as they
> keep looking forward, and doing good.
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

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[gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jakub Moc]

So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
I'm therefore resigning from this project.

I'm pretty sure it will be actually no loss for Gentoo, since those
folks that contributed to my retirement far outweigh the benefit I
could ever possibly be to this project. This can be clearly evidenced
by their long-lasting good record as in [1] and [2] and [3]. In
devrel's own words, one needs to  "respect the wishes of maintainers".

So I'm respecting the wishes of said developer and am getting out of
his way - cheers and keep slackin', Colin! Keep on the great work! I
fully understand that respect for wishes of maintainers is far more
important than fixing stuff in the tree for our users; unfortunately
those wishes are incompatible with my tasks of a bug wrangler. Of
course that can be quickly remedied by taking simple steps such as
suspending the offenders who complain on the bugs, so no big deal.

I'd also like to express my sincere thanks to our QA team, they've
been a tremendous help to me, especially since spb took the position
of QA lead and eroyf  joined them. This can be documented on way too
many bugs, this email is getting long so I'd just mention [4] as a
good example of nice work these folks have been doing. Also thanks for
the neutral approach you've taken on the other bugs quoted above, I'm
pretty sure that's the right thing to do for QA. No need at all to be
concerned about bugs that have been sitting there for mere two years,
we shouldn't make the precious maintainers angry, right.

Finally, my thanks go to devrel and especially our devrel lead, for
the professional,  unbiased etc. conduct they've presented on my
devrel bug [5] (sorry, ask your friendly devrel member to unrestrict
if you can't read it, after all I can't access it either), as well as
before. I indeed entirely failed when I removed myself from the
"discussion about possible misbehaviour on [my] side". I'm pretty sure
the fact that noone CCed me there in the first place for about 9
months was just an unfortunate oversight of our fully professional
devrel. So, thanks a bunch again, kloeri. I'm the worst CoC offender
in the whole Gentoo ever, and fully deserve to be punished. In no way
we should disturb the old good boys club around #-uk, that could
endanger your position and would require guts; no need for that.

Whoever is in charge, kindly change my bugzilla account to the email
address this mail is sent from and take care of the setting the
bugzilla privs accordingly. There's still a couple of bugs I've filed
and maybe someone will take care of them. (No need to worry, Colin,
you can sit on your bugs as long as you wish, I won't disturb you in
your limbo),

For all the rest of folks that haven't found themselves above, sorry,
no thanks for you in this mail. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't
appreciate to be thanked in this context, and that's a good thing.

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!

[1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82772
[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143519
[3] http://cia.vc/stats/author/peitolm
[4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166790
[5] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134852

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Email: jakub.moc@gmail.com
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Luca Barbato]

Jakub Moc wrote:
> So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> I'm therefore resigning from this project.

While there are situations in which you are right about complaining, the
form of some of your complaints isn't exactly nice many times. The 2
weeks pause probably had been meant to just have you think about this issue.

> I'm pretty sure it will be actually no loss for Gentoo, since those
> folks that contributed to my retirement far outweigh the benefit I
> could ever possibly be to this project.

Nobody is perfect, complaints about conduct can be issued in a simpler
and saner way...

Since I consider your work precious I'd like to see you back after those
2 weeks. Please try to think about how to improve instead on how unfair
this treatment had been.

lu

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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Rob C]

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On 17/04/07, Jakub Moc <jakub.moc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> I'm therefore resigning from this project.
>
> I'm pretty sure it will be actually no loss for Gentoo, since those
> folks that contributed to my retirement far outweigh the benefit I
> could ever possibly be to this project. This can be clearly evidenced
> by their long-lasting good record as in [1] and [2] and [3]. In
> devrel's own words, one needs to  "respect the wishes of maintainers".
>
> So I'm respecting the wishes of said developer and am getting out of
> his way - cheers and keep slackin', Colin! Keep on the great work! I
> fully understand that respect for wishes of maintainers is far more
> important than fixing stuff in the tree for our users; unfortunately
> those wishes are incompatible with my tasks of a bug wrangler. Of
> course that can be quickly remedied by taking simple steps such as
> suspending the offenders who complain on the bugs, so no big deal.
>
> I'd also like to express my sincere thanks to our QA team, they've
> been a tremendous help to me, especially since spb took the position
> of QA lead and eroyf  joined them. This can be documented on way too
> many bugs, this email is getting long so I'd just mention [4] as a
> good example of nice work these folks have been doing. Also thanks for
> the neutral approach you've taken on the other bugs quoted above, I'm
> pretty sure that's the right thing to do for QA. No need at all to be
> concerned about bugs that have been sitting there for mere two years,
> we shouldn't make the precious maintainers angry, right.
>
> Finally, my thanks go to devrel and especially our devrel lead, for
> the professional,  unbiased etc. conduct they've presented on my
> devrel bug [5] (sorry, ask your friendly devrel member to unrestrict
> if you can't read it, after all I can't access it either), as well as
> before. I indeed entirely failed when I removed myself from the
> "discussion about possible misbehaviour on [my] side". I'm pretty sure
> the fact that noone CCed me there in the first place for about 9
> months was just an unfortunate oversight of our fully professional
> devrel. So, thanks a bunch again, kloeri. I'm the worst CoC offender
> in the whole Gentoo ever, and fully deserve to be punished. In no way
> we should disturb the old good boys club around #-uk, that could
> endanger your position and would require guts; no need for that.
>
> Whoever is in charge, kindly change my bugzilla account to the email
> address this mail is sent from and take care of the setting the
> bugzilla privs accordingly. There's still a couple of bugs I've filed
> and maybe someone will take care of them. (No need to worry, Colin,
> you can sit on your bugs as long as you wish, I won't disturb you in
> your limbo),
>
> For all the rest of folks that haven't found themselves above, sorry,
> no thanks for you in this mail. I'm pretty sure you wouldn't
> appreciate to be thanked in this context, and that's a good thing.
>
> So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
>
> [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82772
> [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143519
> [3] http://cia.vc/stats/author/peitolm
> [4] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166790
> [5] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134852
>
> --
>
> Jakub Moc
> Email: jakub.moc@gmail.com
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
You are one of the most productive devs we have (had...). You've helped me
on more than on occasion.

While I'm sure anybody could build a "the world hates me" case from
selecting a few particular bugzie entries I'm also pretty sure that peoples
personalities will have caused more of an issue here than their actions...

Good luck in the future, enjoy having some free time!

-Rob
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Alin Năstac]

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Jakub Moc wrote:
> So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
Sorry to see you go, man! You were one of the most hard working devs out
there.
Your contribution will not be forgotten.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen]

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On Tuesday 17 April 2007 06:01, Jakub Moc wrote:
> So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
I'm sad to see you go but I can't say that I don't understand you. It has been 
great having you shove security bugs our way when needed.

Thank you for your work and best of luck with your future endeavours.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Christopher Sawtell]

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:01:46 Jakub Moc wrote:
> So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> I'm therefore resigning from this project.

I would be grateful if somebody could refer me to the archive URL of the 
message which triggered this episode so I can make a personal judgment 
about it?

I don't think I can be receiving all messages posted to this list.

Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Bryan Østergaard]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 10:28:21PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:01:46 Jakub Moc wrote:
> > So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> > I'm therefore resigning from this project.
> 
> I would be grateful if somebody could refer me to the archive URL of the 
> message which triggered this episode so I can make a personal judgment 
> about it?
> 
There's no such thing as it's based on general bad behaviour and not
just a single incident.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Raúl Porcel]

Sad to see you go. In my pov you really did a good job.

I hope the ones in charge of bugzilla come with a solution to this.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:43 +0200, Luca Barbato wrote:
> Jakub Moc wrote:
> > So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> > I'm therefore resigning from this project.
> 
> While there are situations in which you are right about complaining, the
> form of some of your complaints isn't exactly nice many times. The 2
> weeks pause probably had been meant to just have you think about this issue.
> 
> > I'm pretty sure it will be actually no loss for Gentoo, since those
> > folks that contributed to my retirement far outweigh the benefit I
> > could ever possibly be to this project.
> 
> Nobody is perfect, complaints about conduct can be issued in a simpler
> and saner way...
> 
> Since I consider your work precious I'd like to see you back after those
> 2 weeks. Please try to think about how to improve instead on how unfair
> this treatment had been.
> 
Jakub,

Luca is exactly right here.  The suspension is meant to be a cooling off
period, not a message that says "please resign".  So please, both for
yourself and for Gentoo, reconsider your resignation and use the two
weeks to cool off, relax, or whatever.  I believe your work is most
important, and I'd hate to lose it over this rather small matter.

If you wish, please contact me privately.  I'll discuss anything you
like.
> lu
> 
> -- 
> 
> Luca Barbato
> 
> Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
> 
Regards,
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Jeffrey Gardner]

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Jakub Moc wrote:
> So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> I'm therefore resigning from this project.

It was recently said that if you had been the 20th or 30th person to get
sanctioned, you could have just relaxed and enjoyed the vacation time.
But since the CoC is fairly new, and you're the first one (that I can
remember) to get suspended, it stings more than it should.
Anyway, what I'm trying to say is don't take it so hard...it's not that
big a deal.


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Gentoo Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Ferris McCormick]

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> Jakub Moc wrote:
> > So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> > I'm therefore resigning from this project.
> 
> It was recently said that if you had been the 20th or 30th person to get
> sanctioned, you could have just relaxed and enjoyed the vacation time.
> But since the CoC is fairly new, and you're the first one (that I can
> remember) to get suspended, it stings more than it should.
> Anyway, what I'm trying to say is don't take it so hard...it's not that
> big a deal.
> 
> 
Small correction, just for accuracy's sake:  Suspension is under devrel
policy, not CoC.  Otherwise, I fully agree with your last sentence.

> - --
> Jeffrey Gardner
> Gentoo Developer
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Bryan Østergaard]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 09:04:39AM -0500, Jeffrey Gardner wrote:
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> 
> Jakub Moc wrote:
> > So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> > I'm therefore resigning from this project.
> 
> It was recently said that if you had been the 20th or 30th person to get
> sanctioned, you could have just relaxed and enjoyed the vacation time.
> But since the CoC is fairly new, and you're the first one (that I can
> remember) to get suspended, it stings more than it should.
> Anyway, what I'm trying to say is don't take it so hard...it's not that
> big a deal.
> 
Ok, I'm going to quote something I wrote on the -core mailing list that
will hopefully help to clear up this misunderstanding about the decision
being based on the new code of conduct.

"Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned CoC at all since it seems to confuse a
few people.

We're not suspending jakub based on CoC but based on a long string of
bad behaviour. That behaviour certainly violates the code of conduct in
many cases but the suspension isn't based on CoC as such but rather the
numerous devrel complaints and warnings he's already received."

In short, the suspension is based on repeated bad behaviour during a
long period of time and despite warning him several times there's been
no improvement in his behaviour. That's why we're calling for a timeout
with this suspension and hoping that jakub will reconsider his
behaviour.

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Peter Weller]

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On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:31:00 +0300
Samuli Suominen <drac@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:01:46 +0200
> "Jakub Moc" <jakub.moc@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any
> > more. I'm therefore resigning from this project.
> 
> I'm sorry to see you go. I'm personally requesting for you to
> reconsider. Your work has been greatly undermined by certain
> developers. You've fixed multiple times more bugs than many of
> the devs with actual CVS commit access by simply doing something about
> them.. 
> 
> Poke me at any time on IRC to get something done.
> 
> - Samuli Suominen

++
/me cries

Even if you do go through with the retirement, you'll still provide me
with milk, right? ;)
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Charlie Shepherd]

On 17/04/07, Samuli Suominen <drac@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:01:46 +0200
> "Jakub Moc" <jakub.moc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> > brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> > I'm therefore resigning from this project.
>
> I'm sorry to see you go. I'm personally requesting for you to
> reconsider. Your work has been greatly undermined by certain
> developers. You've fixed multiple times more bugs than many of
> the devs with actual CVS commit access by simply doing something about
> them..
>
> Poke me at any time on IRC to get something done.


I was going to write a reply to this effect but you've written it a
lot better than I ever could. Jakub, I'll miss you.


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Samuli Suominen]

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 06:01:46 +0200
"Jakub Moc" <jakub.moc@gmail.com> wrote:

> So....  Since devrel has been so kind and suspended me, based on our
> brand new CoC, I don't feel any need to stay on this project any more.
> I'm therefore resigning from this project.

I'm sorry to see you go. I'm personally requesting for you to
reconsider. Your work has been greatly undermined by certain
developers. You've fixed multiple times more bugs than many of
the devs with actual CVS commit access by simply doing something about
them.. 

Poke me at any time on IRC to get something done.

- Samuli Suominen
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[gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Ferris McCormick]

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No, not from Gentoo.

After some thought, for personal reasons I resign from devrel.  It's
been enjoyable, and all my best to the devrel team.

Regards,
Ferris
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Davide Italiano]

Good luck, dude.

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[gentoo-dev] Resignation

[Olivier Fisette]

Hi,

It is time for me to resign as a Gentoo developer. I no longer contribute 
enough to the project to warrant developer status, and that is not likely to 
change anytime soon. With new hobbies and projects in my life, I no longer 
find the free time and motivation combination that used to make me contribute 
to Gentoo on a regular basis.

I wish to thank everyone I had the pleasure to work with. I learned a lot from 
you, and being part of the development team was a great experience. I plan to 
contribute on Bugzilla from time to time, and I might try to come back to 
devhood in the future...

With kind regards,

Olivier

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Scientific applications