From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KSPNC-0007CB-QH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:51:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BDC45E0280; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.241]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D27E0280 for ; Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so1673206rvf.46 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.79.18 with SMTP id c18mr3085518wab.86.1218430271858; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.115.55.9 with HTTP; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:51:11 -0700 From: "Alec Warner" Sender: antarus@scriptkitty.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200808110027.04169.zlin@gentoo.org> <20080810223515.GA10158@comet> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 24ef731ee45f76c1 X-Archives-Salt: 7009c5da-8e26-4084-80f6-e6dec0ffd432 X-Archives-Hash: 5f9b3735b76771bca5a56f7b14be2e99 On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Donnie Berkholz wrote: >> >> On 00:26 Mon 11 Aug , Bo =D8rsted Andresen wrote: >>> >>> My retirement is probably long overdue as I haven't really been active >>> for several months. It is now clear to me that Gentoo is not moving in = the >>> direction I had wished for and the last council election indicates that= most >>> current Gentoo developers appear to be satisfied with this current >>> direction. Therefore farewell. If anybody wants to reach me I can be re= ached >>> at bo.andresen at zlin.dk. >> >> Adios guys, and thanks for all the work you've put into Gentoo while you >> were here! Best of luck on your future endeavors. > > They always say that stuff but never bother explaining what the direction > they wish for actually is. As a user I get the impression that there's s= ome > kind of evil Cabal. Despite our best efforts Gentoo is not a fun-loving community where everyone gets along. If you want to call the fact that the majority of developers want to go in direction 'X' a cabal; then so be it. Many folks are happy at the current pace of development. I imagine these two folks were frustrated at the lack of new features in the ebuild spec that were readily available in kdebuild-1 and decided to move on. More power to them I say. -Alec