From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:31:26 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2008.08.11.00.31.25@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7c612fc60808101640l31e7f248ybf9eeba60c5faeeb@mail.gmail.com
"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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-11 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-10 22:26 [gentoo-dev] Retirement Bo Ørsted Andresen
2008-08-10 22:35 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-08-10 23:18 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-10 23:40 ` Denis Dupeyron
2008-08-11 0:31 ` Duncan [this message]
2008-08-11 4:51 ` Alec Warner
2008-08-11 5:46 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-08-11 7:45 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-11 13:19 ` Patrick Lauer
2008-08-11 13:31 ` Anthony Metcalf
2008-08-12 0:26 ` Duncan
2008-08-12 16:02 ` Jeroen Roovers
2008-08-11 13:34 ` George Prowse
2008-08-11 10:27 ` David Leverton
2008-08-11 7:25 ` Steve Long
2008-08-11 9:35 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Santiago M. Mola
2008-08-11 10:58 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-11-03 19:49 Seemant Kulleen
2006-11-03 20:37 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Christian Faulhammer
2006-11-03 19:15 [gentoo-dev] Retirement Jon Portnoy
2006-11-04 1:20 ` [gentoo-dev] Retirement Duncan
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