[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:
>> Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> On 00:26 Mon 11 Aug     , Bo Ørsted 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 reached
>>>> 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 some
>> 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.

I must apologize for using the word "Cabal".  I don't know the 
developers who resigned at all, nor do I have any clue about the reasons 
they departed.  Leaving with a "Gentoo is not going in the direction I 
want" is equivalent to "Gentoo is going in the wrong direction" and 
makes the resignation sound political.  I don't get why anyone would 
resign because of the ebuild spec, but anyway.  Resignations in general 
don't tend to be too honest.  "I'm bored dudes, farewell" would probably 
be perfectly fine.