[gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement

[Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

"Denis Dupeyron" <calchan@gentoo.org> posted
7c612fc60808101640l31e7f248ybf9eeba60c5faeeb@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on  Mon, 11 Aug 2008 01:40:58 +0200:

> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Most of the Gentoo developer population is made of young males with a
> natural tendency to overreaction and suboptimal communication skills
> (and I'm not implying it's the case of the original poster). So, if I
> were you, I wouldn't bother too much to read in between the lines of
> these retirement messages.

That, and by the time it comes to retirement, one has generally been thru 
the arguments several times already, the people that need to know why in 
general already do, and there's a feeling it's not worth rehearsing old 
positions and bringing up old arguments the one last time.  The time for 
that has already passed by the time someone's announcing their 
retirement, the decision has been made, it's all water under the bridge 
now (as the saying goes) and it's time to move on, with a clean break, no 
longer blaming anyone or etc as that's what one does /before/ it gets to 
this point.

So, indeed, I'm a KDE user here, and it's time to wish them well...

Thanks guys for all the hard work, the product of which I'm running 
(still KDE 3.5.9, here) as I type this.  Be well, and hope to see you 
around the community!  There's plenty of projects out there that can use 
your help! =8^)

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