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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Retirement
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"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.
>=20
> 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=
=20
the arguments several times already, the people that need to know why in=20
general already do, and there's a feeling it's not worth rehearsing old=20
positions and bringing up old arguments the one last time. The time for=20
that has already passed by the time someone's announcing their=20
retirement, the decision has been made, it's all water under the bridge=20
now (as the saying goes) and it's time to move on, with a clean break, no=
=20
longer blaming anyone or etc as that's what one does /before/ it gets to=20
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=20
(still KDE 3.5.9, here) as I type this. Be well, and hope to see you=20
around the community! There's plenty of projects out there that can use=20
your help! =3D8^)
--=20
Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
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